Idiopathic inflammatory aneurysm of the ascending aorta.
Inflammatory aneurysms of the ascending aorta are exceedingly rare. The principal cause of ascending aortic aneurysms remains arteriosclerosis. We present a patient with an ascending aortic aneurysm caused by active inflammatory disease superimposed on complex atherosclerotic disease of the aorta.
Gasparovic
Hrvoje
H
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Nascimben
Luigino
L
Kindelberger
David W
DW
Byrne
John G
JG
D000368:Aged; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D001025:Aortitis / Q000473:pathology*; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans