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Knowing you have a brain aneurysm may raise anxiety risk, other mental health conditions

American Heart News - Heart News

Research Highlights: People diagnosed with unruptured cerebral aneurysms (weakened areas in brain blood vessels) who are being monitored without treatment have a higher risk of developing mental illness compared to those who have not been diagnosed.

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Uncommon presentation of left main congenital coronary aneurysm: a rare case report

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Coronary aneurysm, a dilated segment of the coronary artery, is a rare condition with a prevalence ranging from 0.02% to 0.2%. According to the current literature, reports of large aneurysms in the left main artery are extremely rare. Due to the high surgical risk, conservative treatment was chosen.

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Unstable 'fluttering' predicts aortic aneurysm with 98% accuracy

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a person might someday suffer an aortic aneurysm, a deadly condition that often causes no symptoms until it ruptures.

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Case Report: A new therapeutic option for a rare patent ductus arteriosus child complicated with pulmonary artery aneurysm due to infectious endocarditis

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

PDA combined with pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA) due to IE is rare in children. Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is one of the most common forms of congenital heart disease (CHD). Infectious endocarditis (IE) is a rare but serious complication of PDA. In this report, we report a rare pediatric PDA case, complicated with PAA due to IE.

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Obstructive sleep apnea may increase risk of abdominal aortic aneurysms

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Obstructive sleep apnea may be a risk factor for developing abdominal aortic aneurysms, according to researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and NextGen Precision Health.

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Androgen aggravates aortic aneurysms via suppression of PD-1 in mice

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

Androgen has long been recognized for its pivotal role in the sexual dimorphism of cardiovascular diseases, including aortic aneurysms (AAs), a devastating vascular disease with a higher prevalence and fatality rate in men than in women. However, the mechanism by which androgen mediates AAs is largely unknown.

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Electrovectorcardiographic study of left ventricular aneurysm in ischemic heart disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

The aim was to characterize the electrovectorcardiographic pattern of ventricular aneurysms in ischemic cardiopathy by analyzing the cardiac ventricular repolarization. The electrovectorcardiographic parameters showed high accuracy for recognizing left ventricular aneurysms in ischemic heart disease.