Cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysm

Cardiovascular manifestations of tertiary syphilis include aortitis, aortic root dilation, aneurysm formation, aortic regurgitation, and coronary ostial stenosis. Coronary ostial lesions have been detected in as many as 26% of patients with syphilitic aortitis. However nonostial coronary stenosis an...

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Main Authors: Satyendra Tewari, Nagaraja Moorthy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-11-01
Series:Indian Heart Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001948321400707X
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spelling doaj-de51c39367724c53a257bd209a4de9392020-11-24T22:08:33ZengElsevierIndian Heart Journal0019-48322014-11-0166673573610.1016/j.ihj.2014.10.408Cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysmSatyendra Tewari0Nagaraja Moorthy1Department of Cardiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow 226014, IndiaDepartment of Cardiology, Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research, Bangalore, IndiaCardiovascular manifestations of tertiary syphilis include aortitis, aortic root dilation, aneurysm formation, aortic regurgitation, and coronary ostial stenosis. Coronary ostial lesions have been detected in as many as 26% of patients with syphilitic aortitis. However nonostial coronary stenosis and coronary aneurysms in same patient is rarely described in cardiovascular syphilis.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001948321400707XCoronary artery diseaseCoronary aneurysmSyphilis
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author Satyendra Tewari
Nagaraja Moorthy
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Nagaraja Moorthy
Cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysm
Indian Heart Journal
Coronary artery disease
Coronary aneurysm
Syphilis
author_facet Satyendra Tewari
Nagaraja Moorthy
author_sort Satyendra Tewari
title Cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysm
title_short Cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysm
title_full Cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysm
title_fullStr Cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysm
title_full_unstemmed Cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysm
title_sort cardiovascular syphilis with coronary stenosis and aneurysm
publisher Elsevier
series Indian Heart Journal
issn 0019-4832
publishDate 2014-11-01
description Cardiovascular manifestations of tertiary syphilis include aortitis, aortic root dilation, aneurysm formation, aortic regurgitation, and coronary ostial stenosis. Coronary ostial lesions have been detected in as many as 26% of patients with syphilitic aortitis. However nonostial coronary stenosis and coronary aneurysms in same patient is rarely described in cardiovascular syphilis.
topic Coronary artery disease
Coronary aneurysm
Syphilis
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001948321400707X
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