New Trends of Personalized Medicine in the Management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Review

Yaman Alsabbagh, Young Erben, Jonathan Vandenberg, Houssam Farres · 2024

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Yaman Alsabbagh, Young Erben, Jonathan Vandenberg, and Houssam Farres review the move toward personalized care for a dangerous swelling of the body's main artery, in this 2024 paper. An abdominal aortic aneurysm bulges until it may burst, which is often fatal. Doctors now decide on surgery mostly by the bulge's width and growth, yet small ones sometimes rupture and large ones often sit stable.

The review argues for judging each patient's wall directly, using measures of wall stress, wall strength, and blood flow. New imaging, from ultrasound elastography to CT and MRI scans sharpened by artificial intelligence, can supply those measures and sharpen rupture forecasts. On the treatment side, the authors survey nanoparticles that deliver drugs to weak wall spots, stem cell therapy, and gene editing aimed at strengthening the wall. Their goal is fewer needless operations and fewer missed ruptures.

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CREATORYaman Alsabbagh, Young Erben, Jonathan Vandenberg, Houssam Farres
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE33 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11677056

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