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Ascending aortic aneurysm caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

BACKGROUND: Tuberculous aortitis is an unusual presentation of a common disease in Sri Lanka. There were no reported cases of tuberculous aortitis from Sri Lanka. Here we report a case of a 40-year-old woman who developed an ascending aortic aneurysm with severe aortic regurgitation caused by Mycoba...

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Autores principales: Pathirana, Upul, Kularatne, Saman, Karunaratne, Suneth, Ranasinghe, Gamini, Fernando, Janakie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638108/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26553119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1667-x