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Ann Thorac Surg 2006;82:1405-1406
© 2006 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Charles R. Bridges, MD, ScD

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, The Farm Journal Building, 230 W Washington Sq, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106

(Email: cbridges@pahosp.com).

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The study by Elefteriades and colleagues at Yale is yet another in the series of seminal contributions his group has made to the study of thoracic aortic disease [1]. This study is particularly important because it highlights the common occurrence of familial patterns of inheritance in thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) and dissections occurring in patients without defined genetic syndromes as well as the nature and natural history of these aneurysms. Although this concept is not entirely new to this report, there have been remarkably . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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