Syphilitic Aortic Aneurysm in the Third Millennium

A 69-year-old man presented with precordial pain and a dilated ascending aorta with the suspicion of an intramural hematoma. At emergency operation, the aorta appeared grossly thickened with diffuse intimal scarring. Retrospectively, the patient tested positive to serologic screening for syphilis wi...

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Autores principales: Del Re, Federico, Falcetta, Giosuè S., Pratali, Stefano, Belgio, Beatrice, Pucci, Angela, Bortolotti, Uberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical Publishers 2019
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6443384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30934107
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1683399
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author Del Re, Federico
Falcetta, Giosuè S.
Pratali, Stefano
Belgio, Beatrice
Pucci, Angela
Bortolotti, Uberto
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description A 69-year-old man presented with precordial pain and a dilated ascending aorta with the suspicion of an intramural hematoma. At emergency operation, the aorta appeared grossly thickened with diffuse intimal scarring. Retrospectively, the patient tested positive to serologic screening for syphilis with histologic findings also compatible with a syphilitic aortitis.
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spelling pubmed-64433842019-04-02 Syphilitic Aortic Aneurysm in the Third Millennium Del Re, Federico Falcetta, Giosuè S. Pratali, Stefano Belgio, Beatrice Pucci, Angela Bortolotti, Uberto Aorta (Stamford) A 69-year-old man presented with precordial pain and a dilated ascending aorta with the suspicion of an intramural hematoma. At emergency operation, the aorta appeared grossly thickened with diffuse intimal scarring. Retrospectively, the patient tested positive to serologic screening for syphilis with histologic findings also compatible with a syphilitic aortitis. Thieme Medical Publishers 2019-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6443384/ /pubmed/30934107 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1683399 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Falcetta, Giosuè S.
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title_short Syphilitic Aortic Aneurysm in the Third Millennium
title_sort syphilitic aortic aneurysm in the third millennium
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6443384/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1683399
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