In a mouse model of sporadic AAD, we evaluated the ascending, arch, descending thoracic, suprarenal abdominal, and infrarenal segments of ... dilated aorta, aortic aneurysm without dissection, aortic ...

Patients were excluded if they had bicuspid valves, aortic dissection, or heritable aortopathy. All tissues were collected within 4 hours of death for Rapid Autopsy participants and during transplant ...