Aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report

Aortitis may be due to infectious and non-infectious causes. We observed aortitis, associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, pericarditis, pleural effusion and neuropathy in a 63-years old woman. Despite antibiotic therapy, inflammatory signs persisted and resolved only after initiation of glucocortico...

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Autores principales: Stöllberger, Claudia, Avanzini, Marion, Hanafin, Aileen, Sanani, Ramona, Wieselthaler, Georg, Wick, Nikolaus, Bayer, Günther, Mölzer, Günther, Finsterer, Josef
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21575249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-74
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author Stöllberger, Claudia
Avanzini, Marion
Hanafin, Aileen
Sanani, Ramona
Wieselthaler, Georg
Wick, Nikolaus
Bayer, Günther
Mölzer, Günther
Finsterer, Josef
author_facet Stöllberger, Claudia
Avanzini, Marion
Hanafin, Aileen
Sanani, Ramona
Wieselthaler, Georg
Wick, Nikolaus
Bayer, Günther
Mölzer, Günther
Finsterer, Josef
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description Aortitis may be due to infectious and non-infectious causes. We observed aortitis, associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, pericarditis, pleural effusion and neuropathy in a 63-years old woman. Despite antibiotic therapy, inflammatory signs persisted and resolved only after initiation of glucocorticoid therapy. Increasing aortic ectasia necessitated resection of the ascending aorta and implantation of a Vascutek 30 mm prosthesis. Histologically a granulomatous aortitis was diagnosed. Since all other possible causes were excluded, an immunological mechanism of the aortitis is suspected and possible triggering factors are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-31139322011-06-14 Aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report Stöllberger, Claudia Avanzini, Marion Hanafin, Aileen Sanani, Ramona Wieselthaler, Georg Wick, Nikolaus Bayer, Günther Mölzer, Günther Finsterer, Josef J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report Aortitis may be due to infectious and non-infectious causes. We observed aortitis, associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, pericarditis, pleural effusion and neuropathy in a 63-years old woman. Despite antibiotic therapy, inflammatory signs persisted and resolved only after initiation of glucocorticoid therapy. Increasing aortic ectasia necessitated resection of the ascending aorta and implantation of a Vascutek 30 mm prosthesis. Histologically a granulomatous aortitis was diagnosed. Since all other possible causes were excluded, an immunological mechanism of the aortitis is suspected and possible triggering factors are discussed. BioMed Central 2011-05-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3113932/ /pubmed/21575249 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-74 Text en Copyright ©2011 Stöllberger et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Stöllberger, Claudia
Avanzini, Marion
Hanafin, Aileen
Sanani, Ramona
Wieselthaler, Georg
Wick, Nikolaus
Bayer, Günther
Mölzer, Günther
Finsterer, Josef
Aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report
title Aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report
title_full Aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report
title_fullStr Aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report
title_full_unstemmed Aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report
title_short Aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report
title_sort aortitis requiring aortic repair associated with glaucoma, thyroiditis, glaucoma, and neuropathy: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21575249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-74
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