Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8657684 Cardiovascular Pathology 2018 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
Pathogenesis of aortopathy in MFS overlaps with mechanisms seen in BAV and TAV, leading to a so called double hit hypothesis for aortic complications in MFS. The ascending aortic wall in MFS is immature with undifferentiated VSMCs and low levels of fibrillin-1. The immature media becomes even more vulnerable for aortopathy due to other degenerative features which develop probably as a direct consequence of the fibrillin-1 mutation.
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