Medial degeneration and atherosclerosis show discrete variance around the circumference of ascending aorta aneurysms

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00179906:_____/22:10448769

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=JcrpWD1J9O" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=JcrpWD1J9O</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00428-022-03397-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00428-022-03397-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Medial degeneration and atherosclerosis show discrete variance around the circumference of ascending aorta aneurysms

Original language description

Medial degeneration is the most common histological finding in ascending aortic aneurysms with lesser but significant involvement by atherosclerosis. The overall extent and severity can be potentially underrated because of their uneven distribution and macroscopic inconspicuousness of medial degeneration. This study aims to compare the distribution of degenerative and atherosclerotic lesions around ascending aorta circumference, also considering aortic valve cuspidity. We evaluated 88 cases of resected ascending aortae, 25 with a tricuspid aortic valve and 63 with a malformed aortic valve, oriented by a cardiac surgeon and sent for pathological examination. We applied the consensus documents from 2015 and 2016 for microscopic evaluation of aortic specimens. The medial degeneration and atherosclerosis were graded semi-quantitatively for each aortic quadrant: convexity, anterior wall, concavity, and posterior wall. Nearly all quadrants showed at least mild medial degeneration; more severe findings of medial degeneration and atherosclerosis were in the aneurysms associated with the tricuspid valve. In the aneurysms with the tricuspid aortic valve, there was more frequent and more severe atherosclerosis at the concavity than at the anterior wall (p = .046); the frequency and severity of medial degeneration did not differ significantly. The aneurysms with a malformed aortic valve showed more severe medial degeneration at the concavity compared to the convexity (p = .011); atherosclerosis was less common and did not show any significant differences. More than half of the samples also revealed at least a one-grade (mostly one-grade) difference among the quadrants in individual cases for both atherosclerosis and medial degeneration. Extreme differences were rare except for atherosclerosis in the tricuspid group. The results revealed only slight overall differences around the aortic circumference, with concavity being the most susceptible. Still, thanks to occurring inter- and intraindividual variability, the examination of all quadrants seems meaningful not to miss the most severe changes and to underscore the findings.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30109 - Pathology

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Virchows Archiv

ISSN

0945-6317

e-ISSN

1432-2307

Volume of the periodical

481

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

731-738

UT code for WoS article

000842684400002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85136206445