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Ectasia
About: Ectasia is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1611 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29160 citations.
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TL;DR: A quantitative method can be used to identify eyes at risk for developing ectasia after LASIK that, if validated, represents a significant improvement over current screening strategies.
713 citations
TL;DR: Retrospective review of preoperative and postoperative data for each case compared with that of previously reported cases and cases with uneventful postoperative courses found significant risk factors for the development of ectasia after LASIK include high myopia, forme fruste keratoconus, and low RSB.
630 citations
TL;DR: Patients with ectasia did not differ from patients with obstructive disease in sex, age, prevalence of angina or presence of metabolic abnormalities, and the short-term prognosis is the same as in medically treated patients with three vessel obstructive coronary artery disease.
Abstract: In a study group of 2,457 consecutive patients undergoing cardiac catheterization, 30 patients had coronary arterial ectasia, an irregular dilatation of major vessels up to seven times the diameter of branch vessels. The frequency of hypertension, abnormal electrocardiogram and history of myocardial infarction was greater than that in a control group with obstructive coronary artery disease. Patients with ectasia did not differ from patients with obstructive disease in sex, age, prevalence of angina or presence of metabolic abnormalities. Six deaths occurred in the group with ectasia during a mean follow-up period of 24 months (annual rate of 15 percent). Extensive destruction of the musculoelastic elements was evident, resulting in marked attenuation of the vessel wall. The short-term prognosis in this group is the same as in medically treated patients with three vessel obstructive coronary artery disease.
612 citations
TL;DR: To assess the clinical significance of coronary artery ectasia 4993 consecutive coronary arteriograms were reviewed to identify patients with this condition and to allow the assessment of their progress.
Abstract: To assess the clinical significance of coronary artery ectasia 4993 consecutive coronary arteriograms were reviewed to identify patients with this condition and to allow the assessment of their progress. Coronary ectasia was a relatively uncommon finding (overall incidence 1.4%). It was not related to the development of aortic aneurysms and did not affect the outcome, results of coronary artery surgery, or symptoms.
540 citations
TL;DR: These investigations suggested that vascular ectasias developing as a degenerative process of aging, are present with or without bleeding in a significant portion of the population over 60 years of age, are multiple more often than single, and may represent the commonest cause of major lower intestinal bleeding in the elderly.
482 citations
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| Year | Papers |
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| 2025 | 70 |
| 2024 | 116 |
| 2023 | 160 |
| 2022 | 308 |
| 2021 | 66 |
| 2020 | 49 |