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FMD and SCAD: Sex-Biased Arterial Diseases With Clinical and Genetic Pleiotropy.
Circulation research - 11 Jun 2021
Kim Esther S H, Saw Jacqueline, Kadian-Dodov Daniella, Wood Malissa, Ganesh Santhi K
Abstract excerpt
Multifocal fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) and spontaneous coronary artery dissection are both sex-biased diseases disproportionately affecting women over men in a 9:1 ratio. Traditionally known in the context of renovascular hypertension, recent advances in knowledge about FMD have demonstrated that FMD is a systemic arteriopathy presenting as arterial stenosis, aneurysm, and dissection in virtually any arterial...
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