Aortic distensibility in Marfan syndrome: a potential predictor of aortic events?
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DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2021-001775
Abstract: Objectives Patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS) are prone to develop aortic aneurysms due to fragmentation of elastic fibres, resulting in reduced distensibility of the aorta. Reduced distensibility was previously shown to predict progressive descending aorta… read more here.
Keywords: distensibility; marfan syndrome; predictor aortic; aortic events ... See more keywords