Thoracic aortic aneurysm: reading the enemy's playbook.

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Diabetes and reduced risk for thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections: a nationwide case-control study. J Am Heart Assoc (2012) 1.04

Mechanical stretch-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress, apoptosis and inflammation contribute to thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection. J Pathol (2015) 0.92

Medical treatment of aortic aneurysms in Marfan syndrome and other heritable conditions. Curr Cardiol Rev (2014) 0.81

Mechanical strength of aneurysmatic and dissected human thoracic aortas at different shear loading modes. J Biomech (2016) 0.79

Recurrent Rare Genomic Copy Number Variants and Bicuspid Aortic Valve Are Enriched in Early Onset Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms and Dissections. PLoS One (2016) 0.78

Long telomeres in blood leukocytes are associated with a high risk of ascending aortic aneurysm. PLoS One (2012) 0.76

N-(2-Aminoethyl) Ethanolamine-Induced Morphological, Biochemical, and Biophysical Alterations in Vascular Matrix Associated With Dissecting Aortic Aneurysm. Toxicol Sci (2015) 0.75

Aetiology and management of hereditary aortopathy. Nat Rev Cardiol (2017) 0.75

Specific circulating microRNA signature of bicuspid aortic valve disease. J Transl Med (2017) 0.75

Postmortem genetic testing should be recommended in sudden cardiac death cases due to thoracic aortic dissection. Int J Legal Med (2017) 0.75

A machine learning approach to investigate the relationship between shape features and numerically predicted risk of ascending aortic aneurysm. Biomech Model Mechanobiol (2017) 0.75

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Weight lifting and aortic dissection: more evidence for a connection. Cardiology (2006) 1.56

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Role of exertion or emotion as inciting events for acute aortic dissection. Am J Cardiol (2007) 1.19

Gene expression signature in peripheral blood detects thoracic aortic aneurysm. PLoS One (2007) 1.15

Tissue microarray detection of matrix metalloproteinases, in diseased tricuspid and bicuspid aortic valves with or without pathology of the ascending aorta. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg (2004) 1.13

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Weight lifting and rupture of silent aortic aneurysms. JAMA (2003) 0.85