Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: The Search for Therapies

Presented by The Stanford Health Library and The Stanford Center for Asian Health Research and Education
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) disease is a common and frequently fatal heart disease. Currently, there is no medical therapy leaving only surgical approaches once the disease has become severely advanced. Joshua Spin, MD, PhD discusses some of the approaches his lab is taking to address AAA.
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Joshua Spin, MD, PhD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Stanford University, and a Staff Cardiologist at the Palo Alto VA. In addition to his clinical work at Stanford Hospital and the VA, he is a member of the Stanford Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease and the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, and is also an attending physician in the Stanford Marfan Center. Dr. Spin's laboratory conducts basic and translational research in vascular biology, with an emphasis on investigations of abdominal aortic aneurysm and vascular smooth muscle cells.
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