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Papers of the Month - 99

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#1.	MA Coady et al (including John Elefteriades).  Familial
patterns of thoracic aortic aneurysms.  Arch Surg 1999; 134: 361-367.  
For a direct link to this paper, click here. 

Comment by mdt:  I began my work on the human genetics of the AAA
at Yale in 1977; and around that time one of my laboratory research
students was John Elefteriades.  He worked on the tensile properties
of skin in a spontaneously aneurysm-prone mouse.  He is now Professor
and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Yale, and his research group is
finding that many of our observations regarding the AAA may also be
relevant to the TAA.  Good going, John.

#2.	CA Nienaber et al.  Nonsurgical reconstruction of thoracic
aortic dissection by stent-graft placement.  For a direct link to this
paper, click here. 

Comment by mdt:  This paper had a companion editorial by GJ Vlahakes:
"Catheter-based treatment of aortic dissection," which is more
authoritative on the subject than anything I could personally write.
I will provide you with a pointer to it, click here.