title: [Morphologic study of aneurysms of the thoracic aorta].
abstract: Aneurysm of thoracic aorta was found in 20 from 7175 autopsies (0.25%) of persons deceased at the age of more than 15 years. The aneurysm was localized in 4 cases, diffuse in 14 and combined in two cases. Its pathogenesis was related to medionecrosis in 6 cases, to chronic aortitis in 5 and to isthmic aortic coarctation in two cases. Left ventricle hypertrophy which was found in 17 cases was related to arterial hypertension in 10 cases but only twice to a diffuse aneurysm. The aneurysm was closely connected with the cause of death in 10 patients. In a control study of subsequent 100 autopsies the mean aortic circumference was 75 mm in men and 71 mm in women, 59 mm in patients under the age of 50 and 82 mm over the age of 71 years. Medionecrosis was found in 45 cases, mucodystrophy in 8 and chronic aortitis in two cases.
authors.affiliation: Oddĕlení patologie nemocnice, Kolín.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Peychl
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Morfologické hodnocení výdutí hrudní aorty.