Are Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Patients at Increased Risk for Cardiovascular Diseases?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Abdominal aortic aneurysms are associated with a sharply increased cardiovascular risk. Cardiovascular risk management is therefore recommended in prevailing guidelines for abdominal aneurysm patients. It has been hypothesized that associated risk relates to loss of aortic compliance. If this hypothesis is correct, observations for abdominal aneurysms would also apply to thoracic aortic aneurysms. The objective of this study is to test whether thoracic aneurysms are also associated with an increased cardiovascular risk burden.

Methods

Patients who underwent aortic valve or root surgery were included in the study (n = 239). Cardiovascular risk factors were studied and atherosclerosis was scored based on the preoperative coronary angiographies. Multivariate a

SUBMITTER: Dolmaci OB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9821759 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature