Giant-Cell Arteritis Causing Severe Aortic Regurgitation Secondary to Aneurysm of the Ascending Aorta— A Case Report

1 September 1987

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Angiology

Vol. 38 (9) , 712-716
https://doi.org/10.1177/000331978703800909

Abstract

This report describes a case of aneurysm of the ascending aorta with second ary, severe, aortic valve incompetence following temporal arteritis in a sixty- five-year-old woman.

Keywords

AORTIC VALVE
SEVERE AORTIC
AORTIC REGURGITATION
OLD WOMAN
TEMPORAL ARTERITIS
CELL ARTERITIS
REPORT DESCRIBES
CAUSING SEVERE

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Giant-Cell Aortitis Causing an Aneurysm of the Ascending Aorta and Aortic Regurgitation
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