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Idiopathic Aortitis With Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Course and Its Treatment
Aortitis is an inflammatory phenomenon involving one or more layers of the aorta and can have infectious or noninfectious etiologies. Complications of aortitis include aneurysm, dissection, and rupture, which can lead to ischemic organs and ultimately death. Noninfectious aortitis is often secondary...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34567905 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17366 |
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author | Faizi, Zaheer Humayun, Ammar Matto, Marissa White, Zeyn Sajja, Sai |
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description | Aortitis is an inflammatory phenomenon involving one or more layers of the aorta and can have infectious or noninfectious etiologies. Complications of aortitis include aneurysm, dissection, and rupture, which can lead to ischemic organs and ultimately death. Noninfectious aortitis is often secondary to trauma or results from a systemic inflammatory process. It is further categorized based on clinical characteristics, laboratory findings, and imaging. There are some cases in which the etiology cannot be determined and is, therefore, idiopathic in nature. We present a case of a 67-year-old male who presented with malaise, abdominal pain, anorexia, and significant weight loss for several months. Imaging revealed retroperitoneal fibrosis and aortitis. After an extensive workup, we diagnosed idiopathic aortitis and treated the patient with high-dose corticosteroids that led to symptom improvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-84549882021-09-24 Idiopathic Aortitis With Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Course and Its Treatment Faizi, Zaheer Humayun, Ammar Matto, Marissa White, Zeyn Sajja, Sai Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Aortitis is an inflammatory phenomenon involving one or more layers of the aorta and can have infectious or noninfectious etiologies. Complications of aortitis include aneurysm, dissection, and rupture, which can lead to ischemic organs and ultimately death. Noninfectious aortitis is often secondary to trauma or results from a systemic inflammatory process. It is further categorized based on clinical characteristics, laboratory findings, and imaging. There are some cases in which the etiology cannot be determined and is, therefore, idiopathic in nature. We present a case of a 67-year-old male who presented with malaise, abdominal pain, anorexia, and significant weight loss for several months. Imaging revealed retroperitoneal fibrosis and aortitis. After an extensive workup, we diagnosed idiopathic aortitis and treated the patient with high-dose corticosteroids that led to symptom improvement. Cureus 2021-08-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8454988/ /pubmed/34567905 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17366 Text en Copyright © 2021, Faizi et al. https://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 Faizi, Zaheer Humayun, Ammar Matto, Marissa White, Zeyn Sajja, Sai Idiopathic Aortitis With Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Course and Its Treatment |
title | Idiopathic Aortitis With Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Course and Its Treatment |
title_full | Idiopathic Aortitis With Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Course and Its Treatment |
title_fullStr | Idiopathic Aortitis With Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Course and Its Treatment |
title_full_unstemmed | Idiopathic Aortitis With Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Course and Its Treatment |
title_short | Idiopathic Aortitis With Retroperitoneal Fibrosis Course and Its Treatment |
title_sort | idiopathic aortitis with retroperitoneal fibrosis course and its treatment |
topic | Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8454988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34567905 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17366 |
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