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cardiovascular anomalies
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cardiac anomalies
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cardiovascular Behçet disease
16 September 2013Cardiac Behçet disease
Behçet disease is an inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology showing diverse clinical presentations. Cardiac involvement is a critical problem that requires a timely diagnosis and management. Cardiac Behçet disease is presented as aortic valvulitis/aortitis or inflammatory mass lesion.
Synopsis
severe aortic regurgitation with redundant prolapsing aortic cusps
irregular mass lesions in the right ventricular cavity
The aortic root is also involved with aortic (...) -
cardiovascular syphilis
28 May 2013Cardiovascular syphilitic infection
The incidence of late manifestations of syphilis have declined almost to a rare entity since the era of antibiotics. Before the discovery of penicillin, tertiary syphilis infection was the most common cause of thoracic aortic aneurysm, resulting in 5–10% of cardiovascular deaths.
The primary lesion of cardiovascular syphilis is aortitis, an inflammatory response to the invasion of the aortic wall by the Treponema pallidum that evolves to obliterative (...) -
inflammatory aneurysm of the ascending aorta
29 June 2011References
Inflammatory aneurysm of the ascending aorta. Künzli A, von Segesser LK, Vogt PR, Spahn DR, Schneider J, Jenni R, Turina MI. Ann Thorac Surg. 1998 Apr;65(4):1132-3. PMID: #9564942# -
mesoaortitis
29 June 2011Etiology
dysimmune mesoaortitis
syphilitic mesoaortitis
Synopsis
chronic mesoaortitis
patchy destruction of musculo-elastic medial tissue
adventitial focal lymphocytic infiltrates
A case of an ascending aortic aneurysm due to mesoaortitis complicated with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.
References
Matsuzaki K, Shiiya N, Kubota S, Kunihara T, Murashita T, Matsui Y, Yasuda K. Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001 Oct;7(5):315-8. PMID: #11743862# (...) -
lymphoplasmacytic aortitis
29 June 2011Microscopy
primary lymphoplasmacytic aortitis
primary lymphoplasmacytic periaortitis without giant cells
medial-adventitial inflammation
elastic fiber disruption in sites of gross aortic dissection
Complications
association of primary lymphoplasmacytic aortitis and aortic dissection.
References
IgG4-related inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm. Kasashima S, Zen Y. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2011 Jan;23(1):18-23. PMID: #21124083#
IgG4-related systemic disease accounts for a (...) -
IgG4-associated inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm
29 June 2011IgG4-related inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysm
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chronic periaortitis
29 June 2011References
Vasculitis of the gastrointestinal tract in chronic periaortitis. Salvarani C, Calamia KT, Matteson EL, Hunder GG, Pipitone N, Miller DV, Warrington KJ. Medicine (Baltimore). 2011 Jan;90(1):28-39. PMID: #21200184#
Chronic periaortitis: a large-vessel vasculitis? Vaglio A, Pipitone N, Salvarani C. Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2011 Jan;23(1):1-6. PMID: #21124080#
Aortitis and periaortitis in ankylosing spondylitis. Palazzi C, Salvarani C, D’Angelo S, Olivieri I. Joint Bone Spine. 2010 (...) -
thoracic aorta atherosclerosis
29 June 2011atherosclerosis of thoracic aorta
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ECMO-associated myocardial hypoxia
10 June 2011myocardial hypoxia during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation