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Physiological Genetics of Aneurysms
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Physiological Genetics of Aneurysms

This video discusses whether aneurysms are hereditary, risk factors, and diagnostic processes.

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of does increase your risk very marginally. And for those kind of people, we have an in-depth conversation about them having an ultrasound scan or equivalent at the right sort of age. But that's a case-by-case kind of recommendation. Fantastic. And how do we diagnose of rheumatoid aortic aneurysm? So for most people, this is a completely incidental finding. And we either find that from our screening program in the UK. and just to recap that's men who are age 65 are invited to have a jelly scan similar to when ladies have a pregnancy, an ultrasound, and that can see aneurysms in the belly. However, sometimes we find aneurysms incidentally while we're looking for other things and the aneurysms can be in the main blood vessel in the chest or in the belly and sometimes we find them on things like CT scans or MRI scans done for a completely different reason, for example kidney problems or back pain.

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