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Bichat University Hospital, Paris
Mystery blood vessel disorder implicated in "mini" strokes
March 22nd, 2005
Physicians have long been puzzled by a condition called intracranial arterial dolichoectasia, in which the larger arteries of the brain become elongated and misshapen. Typically, it has been considered a complication of atherosclerosis ("hardening of the arteries"), and not directly life-threatening. However, there is recent evidence that people with dolichoectasia are more likely to have aortic aneurysms, a potentially fatal weakening of the main artery that carries blood out from the heart. In an article published online February 28, 2005, in the Annals of Neurology (www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/ana) the same French researchers who...
Source: Health Risk Factor Week (2005-03-22)
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