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J Am Coll Cardiol, 2003; 42:1076-1083, doi:10.1016/S0735-1097(03)00922-7
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Is aortic dilatation an atherosclerosis-related process?

Clinical, laboratory, and transesophageal echocardiographiccorrelates of thoracic aortic dimensions in the populationwith implications for thoracic aortic aneurysm formation

Yoram Agmon, MD*, Bijoy K. Khandheria, MD*,*, Irene Meissner, MD{dagger}, Gary L. Schwartz, MD{ddagger}, JoRean D. Sicks, MS§, Angela J. Fought, BS§, W. Michael O'Fallon, PhD§, David O. Wiebers, MD{dagger} and A. Jamil Tajik, MD*

* Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
{dagger} Department of Neurology, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
{ddagger} Division of Hypertension and Internal Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
§ Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA



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  		Figure 1 The four sites where the dimensions of the thoracic aorta were measured.

 


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  		Figure 2 Transesophageal echocardiographic image of the mid-descending thoracic aorta, demonstrating measurements of the aortic diameter (vertical- dashed arrow) and plaque thickness (solid-line arrow). Note that for measurements of the aortic lumen diameter, atherosclerotic plaques were included within the lumen.

 


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  		Figure 3 Aortic dimensions as a function of age, separately for men and women, at the four thoracic aortic sites.

 




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