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Citation Information: JCI Insight. 2025;10(19):e184329. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.184329.
Abstract
Inflammation plays important roles in the pathogenesis of vascular diseases. We here show the involvement of perivascular inflammation in aortic dilatation of Marfan syndrome (MFS). In the aorta of patients with MFS and Fbn1C1041G/+ mice, macrophages markedly accumulated in periaortic tissues with increased inflammatory cytokine expression. Metabolic inflammatory stress induced by a high-fat diet (HFD) enhanced vascular inflammation predominantly in periaortic tissues and accelerated aortic dilatation in Fbn1C1041G/+ mice, both of which were inhibited by low-dose pitavastatin. HFD feeding also intensifies structural disorganization of the tunica media in Fbn1C1041G/+ mice, including elastic fiber fragmentation, fibrosis, and proteoglycan accumulation, along with increased activation of TGF-β downstream targets. Pitavastatin treatment mitigated these alterations. For noninvasive assessment of perivascular adipose tissues (PVAT) inflammation in a clinical setting, we developed an automated analysis program for CT images using machine learning techniques to calculate the perivascular fat attenuation index of the ascending aorta (AA-FAI), correlating with periaortic fat inflammation. The AA-FAI was significantly higher in patients with MFS compared with patients without hereditary connective tissue disorders. These results suggest that perivascular inflammation contributes to aneurysm formation in MFS and might be a target for preventing and treating vascular events in MFS.
Authors
Hiroyuki Sowa, Hiroki Yagi, Kazutaka Ueda, Masaki Hashimoto, Kohei Karasaki, Qing Liu, Atsumasa Kurozumi, Yusuke Adachi, Tomonobu Yanase, Shun Okamura, Bowen Zhai, Norifumi Takeda, Masahiko Ando, Haruo Yamauchi, Nobuhiko Ito, Minoru Ono, Hiroshi Akazawa, Issei Komuro
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