An association of spleen volume and aortic diameter in patients and in mice with abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Fang-Da LiRui KangHao NieXi-Ming WangYue-Hong ZhengPublished in: BMC surgery (2017)
Mimicking the splenic pathology observed in murine AAA model, there is a strong positive correlation between spleen volume and the Dmax in male AAA patients. As Dmax is a valuable predictor of AAA rupture, the spleen enlargement may be another indicator.
Keyphrases
- end stage renal disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- prognostic factors
- heart failure
- patient reported outcomes
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome
- skeletal muscle
- optical coherence tomography
- high fat diet induced
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary arterial hypertension