Influence of periodontitis on abdominal aortic aneurysms

Table 1 Porphyromonas gingivalis and periodontal bacteria were frequently detected in aortic aneurismal walls

Ref.	Article and year	Detected bacteria	Samples	n
Kurihara et al[15]	Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2004	P. gingivalis, T. denticola, P. intermedia, C. rectus, T. forsythensis, P. nigrescens and A. actinomycetemcomitans	Aortic wall and mural thrombus	32
Marques da Silva et al[31]	J Periodontol 2005	A. actinomycetemcomitans	Aortic wall	56
Nakano et al[32]	Oral Microbiol Immunol 2009	P. gingivalis, T. denticola, A. actinomycetemcomitans, S. mutans and S. sanguinis	Aortic wall	86
Delbosc et al[17]	PLoS One 2011	P. gingivalis	Aortic wall	16