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Fatal thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection in a large family with a novel MYLK gene mutation: delineation of the clinical phenotype

BACKGROUND: Thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms and dissection often develop in hypertensive elderly patients. At higher risk are smokers and those who have a family history of aortic aneurysms. In most affected families, the aortic aneurysms and dissection is inherited in an autosomal dominant...

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Autores principales: Shalata, Adel, Mahroom, Mohammad, Milewicz, Dianna M., Limin, Gong, Kassum, Fadi, Badarna, Khader, Tarabeih, Nader, Assy, Nimmer, Fell, Rona, Cohen, Hector, Nashashibi, Munir, Livoff, Alejandro, Azab, Muhammad, Habib, George, Geiger, Dan, Weissbrod, Omer, Nseir, William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5856213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29544503
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13023-018-0769-7