Familial Aortopathies - State of the Art Review.

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Aortopathies are conditions that result in aortic dilatation, aneurysm formation and dissection. Familial aortopathies (perhaps better known as heritable thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection, h-TAAD, as not all have a positive family history) are recognised to have an underlying genetic cause and affect the aorta, predisposing it to the above pathologies. These conditions can also affect the extra-aortic...

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• Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic
• Aortic Dissection
• Genetic Diseases, Inborn
• Mutation