09 January 2024
Risk for Rupture
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
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Scientific Reports, January 2024
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