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Aortic regurgitation at diagnosis of HLA-B27 associated spondyloarthropathy
J Simpson1, M S Borzy, G M Silberbach
1Department of Medicine, Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children, Portland, OR, USA.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|February 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 14-year-old boy with a 9 month history of rheumatic symptoms was found to have hemodynamically significant aortic regurgitation in association with an HLA-B27 associated spondyloarthropathy (SpA). Valvular incompetence due to aortitis can occur early in the clinical course of pediatric patients with SpA, and careful cardiac monitoring is warranted.