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More Than Just an Ulcer: A Case of HIV-Associated Iliac Aneurysms Presenting With a Leg Ulcer
The incidence of symptomatic vasculitis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients is approximately 1%, and it commonly presents as arterial occlusive disease or aneurysmal disease. Early diagnosis of vascular complications in those patients is essential; however, it is extremely challe...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7943397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33717743 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13203 |
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author | Roman, Sherif Mekheal, Nader Tal, Shani Michael, Patrick |
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description | The incidence of symptomatic vasculitis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients is approximately 1%, and it commonly presents as arterial occlusive disease or aneurysmal disease. Early diagnosis of vascular complications in those patients is essential; however, it is extremely challenging. Iliac aneurysms are usually silent, and because of their deep location, detection of these aneurysms is typically difficult. Therefore, they always continue to be asymptomatic until rupture unless they are discovered incidentally on a radiological investigation for an irrelative condition. We present the case of a 61-year-old HIV-positive man with bilateral iliac aneurysms and total coronary artery occlusion presenting with a leg ulcer. |
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spelling | pubmed-79433972021-03-12 More Than Just an Ulcer: A Case of HIV-Associated Iliac Aneurysms Presenting With a Leg Ulcer Roman, Sherif Mekheal, Nader Tal, Shani Michael, Patrick Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery The incidence of symptomatic vasculitis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients is approximately 1%, and it commonly presents as arterial occlusive disease or aneurysmal disease. Early diagnosis of vascular complications in those patients is essential; however, it is extremely challenging. Iliac aneurysms are usually silent, and because of their deep location, detection of these aneurysms is typically difficult. Therefore, they always continue to be asymptomatic until rupture unless they are discovered incidentally on a radiological investigation for an irrelative condition. We present the case of a 61-year-old HIV-positive man with bilateral iliac aneurysms and total coronary artery occlusion presenting with a leg ulcer. Cureus 2021-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7943397/ /pubmed/33717743 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13203 Text en Copyright © 2021, Roman et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Roman, Sherif Mekheal, Nader Tal, Shani Michael, Patrick More Than Just an Ulcer: A Case of HIV-Associated Iliac Aneurysms Presenting With a Leg Ulcer |
title | More Than Just an Ulcer: A Case of HIV-Associated Iliac Aneurysms Presenting With a Leg Ulcer |
title_full | More Than Just an Ulcer: A Case of HIV-Associated Iliac Aneurysms Presenting With a Leg Ulcer |
title_fullStr | More Than Just an Ulcer: A Case of HIV-Associated Iliac Aneurysms Presenting With a Leg Ulcer |
title_full_unstemmed | More Than Just an Ulcer: A Case of HIV-Associated Iliac Aneurysms Presenting With a Leg Ulcer |
title_short | More Than Just an Ulcer: A Case of HIV-Associated Iliac Aneurysms Presenting With a Leg Ulcer |
title_sort | more than just an ulcer: a case of hiv-associated iliac aneurysms presenting with a leg ulcer |
topic | Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7943397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33717743 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13203 |
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