Association of ficolin-3 with abdominal aortic aneurysm presence and progression
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Circulating markers of abdominal aortic aneurysm presence and progression.
Over the last decade, abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has increasingly been recognized as an important cause of mortality in older persons. In 1999, for example, AAA was noted to be the 15th leading cause of mortality in the United States.1 Exact estimates of AAA-related fatalities are hampered by the low rate of postmortems when sudden death occurs in elderly subjects; however, recent figures ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1538-7933
DOI: 10.1111/jth.13608