Heart India (Jan 2014)

Giant cell arteritis causing annuloaortic ectasia

  • Shetty Kailkere Padma,
  • Mundayat Gopalakrishnan,
  • K Sajitha,
  • B D Impana

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/2321-449x.140234
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 86 – 87

Abstract

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Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a rare cause of ascending aortic aneurysm. We present here a 50-year-old patient who was clinically diagnosed with annuloaortic ectasia. She was successfully treated by Bentall′s operation. Histopathologically, the findings were of GCA. GCA should be suspected when older women presented with aortic aneurysm and continued surveillance of remaining aorta is necessary.

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