Fulminant Infectious Aortitis With Ascending Aortic Rupture

Kinan Kassar; Michael Lucke; Cunfeng Pu; Masaki Tsukashita

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.117

Fulminant Infectious Aortitis With Ascending Aortic Rupture

Kinan Kassar, Michael Lucke, Cunfeng Pu, Masaki Tsukashita

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Infectious aortitis is associated with a high rate of acute aortic adverse events. However, the nonspecificity of symptoms and low sensitivity of blood cultures may delay early recognition of this condition. A 77-year-old man was incidentally found to have aortitis. His disease took a fulminant course and was complicated by dissection and rupture only 4 days after the diagnosis. Serial computed tomographic angiography provided valuable information about the development of aortitis into dissection and rupture. Postdissection histologic analysis revealed gram-positive cocci in the aortic wall.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e11-e12
Journal	Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Volume	103
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.05.117
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

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Surgery
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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