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The ascending aorta of male hypertensive bicuspid aortic valve patients preferentially associated with a cellular aneurysmal phenotype.
Physiological reports - 1 Apr 2022
Bergeron Alexandre, Hertig Vanessa, Villeneuve Louis, Chauvette Vincent, El-Hamamsy Ismail, Calderone Angelino
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Male sex and hypertension represent risk factors in the progression of an aortic aneurysm. The present study examined the morphological/cellular phenotype of the ascending aorta (AA) of male and female patients diagnosed with a bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) to test the hypothesis that hypertension-induced remodeling of male BAV patients preferentially recapitulated the expression of a panel of proteins favoring...
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