A Corticosteroid-Responsive Inflammatory Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Developing from an Atherosclerotic Aneurysm
| Autor: | Shinichi Takamoto, Tokio Hayashi, Yoshio Kobayashi, Nobuko Tsushima, Satoshi Homma, Hiroshi Matsuo |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Aorta Vascular disease business.industry Abdominal aorta Soft tissue medicine.disease Abdominal aortic aneurysm Surgery Aneurysm Ureter medicine.anatomical_structure medicine.artery cardiovascular system medicine Radiology Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Hydronephrosis |
| Zdroj: | Vascular Surgery. 29:417-420 |
| ISSN: | 0042-2835 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/153857449502900512 |
| Popis: | An uncomplicated atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysm in a seventy-one-year-old woman was found to have increased substantially in size. Abdominal computed tomog raphy (CT) demonstrated an abdominal aortic aneurysm with a thick mantle of material having the density of soft tissue abutting its anterior and lateral walls and hydronephrosis of the right kidney due to an encased ureter. Low-dose corticosteroid therapy was given for forty days. On subsequent CT scanning, most of the thick soft- tissue mass surrounding the dilatated aorta and the hydronephrosis had disappeared, which simplified the surgical repair that was then performed. Pathologic examination of the mass showed inflammatory tissue. |
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