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Our retrospective study compared hepatic-pancreatic function between open vs hybrid repair type IV TAAA patients.

Background and purpose: erosion of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques may cause life-threatening thromboembolic complications. There is indeed an urgent need to recognize a clear-cut biomarker able to identify vulnerable plaques. Here, we focused on circulating proteins belonging to the lectin pathway (LP) of complement activation. Methods: we...