Hereditary Thoracic Aortic Diseases

Abstract

Advances in both imaging techniques and genetics have led to the recognition of a wide variety of aortic anomalies that can be grouped under the term ‘hereditary thoracic aortic diseases’. The present review aims to summarize this very heterogeneous population’s clinical, genetic, and imaging characteristics and to discuss the implications of the diagnosis for clinical counselling (on sports activity or pregnancy), medical therapies and surgical management.

Keywords

• hereditary aortopathies
• thoracic aortic disease
• genetics
• aortic dilation
• multimodality imaging