Epidemiology and management of aortic disease: aortic aneurysms and acute aortic syndromes

• Published in: Nature reviews cardiology Vol. 18; no. 5; pp. 331 - 348
• Main Authors: Bossone, Eduardo, Eagle, Kim A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Nature Publishing Group 01.05.2021
• Subjects: Abdomen; Aneurysms; Aortic aneurysms; Epidemiology; Population-based studies; Veins & arteries

The aorta is the 'greatest artery', through which oxygenated blood is delivered from the left ventricle to end organs with each cardiac cycle (200 million litres of blood transported in an average lifetime). The aorta can be affected by a wide spectrum of acute factors (such as cocaine use...