Verminous Aneurysm Caused by Filaria
| Autor: | Adalberto Pereira de Araújo, Francisco Victor de Toledo, Sergio Goncalves Pavão, Eimar Delly de Araújo, Adir Moraes da Cunha, Jorge Roberto Sidow |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
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Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty medicine.disease_cause Verminous aneurysm Degenerative disease Aneurysm parasitic diseases Humans Medicine Wuchereria bancrofti cardiovascular diseases biology business.industry medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Filariasis Strongylus vulgaris cardiovascular system Etiology Infectious etiology High incidence Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Aneurysm Infected |
| Zdroj: | Angiology. 34:412-417 |
| ISSN: | 1940-1574 0003-3197 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/000331978303400605 |
| Popis: | Aneurysms caused by atherosclerosis are relatively frequent, as a conse quence of the high incidence of this degenerative disease of the arteries. Other types of aneurysm, for example, those of infectious etiology, are more un common. Bacterias and fungi are able to cause aneurysms in several parts of the arterial tree. Stengel et al (1943),37in a review of world literature described 217 cases of mycotic aneurysms. The Stedman's Medical Dictionary35refers to a special type of aneurysm observed in horses, caused by intra-vascular migration of a worm, the Strongylus vulgaris. It has been named verminous aneurysm and generally involves the mesenteric arteries. We haven't found in medical literature any similar observations refering to human cases. The pur pose of this paper is to describe a case of aneurysm the etiology of which we have imputed to the filaria (Wuchereria bancrofti). This case was observed in Marcilio Dias Naval Hospital, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
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