CT scan study finds an increased risk of diseases in the wall of the aorta [the body's largest and central artery] called aortic pseudoaneurysm and penetrating aortic ulcer in individuals with aortic calcification, which causes narrowing
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Image from work by Siting Li and Haoxuan Kan, and colleagues
Department of Vascular Surgery, Department of State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China
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Published in Scientific Reports, January 2024
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Accumulation of a protein called versican underlies the usually lethal aortic disease that's associated with the genetic disorder Marfan syndrome
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Image from work by María Jesús Ruiz-Rodríguez and colleagues
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV); Gene Regulation in Cardiovascular Remodeling and Inflammation Group, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain
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Published in EMBO Molecular Medicine, January 2024
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