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Alternatives or complementary options for aortic aneurysm surveillance are an ongoing, non-addressed open issue of vascular medicine. The application of different biomarkers has been discussed, yet so far, an adequate candidate for aortic aneurysm surveillance, if it comes to the thoracic or thoracoabdominal aorta, preferably without radiation exposure, has not been named. Elastin breakdown, as a component of aortic wall degeneration primarily driven by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), is a core element of aneurysm development. Desmosine is an elastin-specific cross-link increasingly studied as a circulating or urinary biomarker of compromised aortic wall integrity and disease activity. Accordingly, this review investigated whether plasma desmosine (pDES), a highly specific marker of elastin degradation, could be used as a non-invasive biomarker for detecting aortic aneurysms and assessing their risk profile. 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