Occlusion of the left coronary trunk secondary to tertiary syphilis.
A 27-year-old patient with tertiary syphilis, manifested as myocardial ischemia, presenting unstable angina, secondary to left coronary trunk occlusion. The diagnosis was confirmed by the serological findings and the pathological assessment of the aorta fragment.
Hospital Santa Casa de Curitiba, Praça Rui Barbosa 245, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. rwang@cardiol.br
Ricardo
R
Wang
Gustavo
G
Blume
Newton Fernando Stadler
NF
Souza Filho
Lidia Zytynski
LZ
Moura
D000328:Adult; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000473:pathology; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013589:Syphilis, Cardiovascular / Q000473:pathology*