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Aortitis, aortic valve incompetence, and left coronary ostium stenosis in a patient with C-ANCA-associated
W J Morshuis1, C J Zeebregts, H C Haanen
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
Aortitis with involvement of the aortic valve is rarely associated with vasculitis syndromes. We present a patient with antibodies to a neutrophil cytoplasmic antigen-associated (ANCA) vasculitis with renal failure who developed aortic incompetence as a result of aortitis which involved the aortic valve. Thickening of the aortic wall also caused stenosis of the left coronary ostium.