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 ...

It may be several years before patients become symptomatic. Aortic dissection and rupture is related to aortic diameter and expansion rate in many situations (table 2). The mean (SD) expansion rate in ...