TY - JOUR
T1 - Aortic sarcoidosis complicated by a pulmonary artery aneurysm
AU - Uchida, Wataru
AU - Tokuda, Yoshiyuki
AU - Mutsuga, Masato
AU - Usui, Akihiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - A 76-year-old woman, who had a history of ocular sarcoidosis, was incidentally found to have a huge pulmonary artery aneurysm, along with aortic, mitral and tricuspid valve insufficiency. She underwent pulmonary artery plication along with surgeries for 3 valves. A specimen of the slightly enlarged ascending aorta revealed the involvement of sarcoidosis in the aortic wall. The systemic granulomatous inflammation process of sarcoidosis possibly affected the valvular and vascular pathology. Herein, we report a rare case of aortic sarcoidosis complicated by a pulmonary artery aneurysm.
AB - A 76-year-old woman, who had a history of ocular sarcoidosis, was incidentally found to have a huge pulmonary artery aneurysm, along with aortic, mitral and tricuspid valve insufficiency. She underwent pulmonary artery plication along with surgeries for 3 valves. A specimen of the slightly enlarged ascending aorta revealed the involvement of sarcoidosis in the aortic wall. The systemic granulomatous inflammation process of sarcoidosis possibly affected the valvular and vascular pathology. Herein, we report a rare case of aortic sarcoidosis complicated by a pulmonary artery aneurysm.
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U2 - 10.1093/ejcts/ezy131
DO - 10.1093/ejcts/ezy131
M3 - Article
C2 - 29617977
AN - SCOPUS:85054321110
SN - 1010-7940
VL - 54
SP - 786
EP - 788
JO - European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
JF - European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
IS - 4
ER -