title: [Ascending aorta-abdominal aorta bypass for atypical coarctation with intractable hypertension due to aortitis syndrome; report of a case].
abstract: A 63-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital. Aortitis syndrome was diagnosed 12 years ago. She developed intractable hypertension and a computed tomography scan showed coarctation of descending aorta with severe calcificaiton. Her ankle brachial pressure index (ABI) was 0.74 on the right side and was 0.70 on the left side. She underwent a bypass operation with 14 mm-diameter prosthetic graft from ascending aorta to the infrarenal abdominal aorta without using cardiopulmonary bypass. Postoperatively, ABI was 1.22 on the right side and was 1.21 on the left side, and hypertension was well controlled.
authors.affiliation: Aortic Center, Shonan Kamakura General Hospital, Kamakura, Japan.
authors.forename: Naohiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shimada
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Ikuo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Katayama
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Kazunori
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: Norikazu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ooshiro
authors.forename: Miyo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shirouzu
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery*; D001012:Aorta, Abdominal / Q000601:surgery*; D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D013625:Takayasu Arteritis / Q000150:complications*