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CC BY 4.0 · Aorta (Stamford) 2018; 06(05): 118-119
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1683399
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Syphilitic Aortic Aneurysm in the Third Millennium

Federico Del Re
1   Section of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
,
Giosuè S. Falcetta
1   Section of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
,
Stefano Pratali
1   Section of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
,
Beatrice Belgio
2   Section of Pathology, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
,
Angela Pucci
2   Section of Pathology, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
,
Uberto Bortolotti
1   Section of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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19 September 2017

09 November 2018

Publication Date:
01 April 2019 (online)

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Abstract

A 69-year-old man presented with precordial pain and a dilated ascending aorta with the suspicion of an intramural hematoma. At emergency operation, the aorta appeared grossly thickened with diffuse intimal scarring. Retrospectively, the patient tested positive to serologic screening for syphilis with histologic findings also compatible with a syphilitic aortitis.

Keywords

aortic aneurysm - aortic valve replacement - ascending aorta
 

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