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Images in Cardiothoracic Surgery

Giant Inflammatory Ascending Aorta Aneurysm

Velit Halit, MD^a, Erkan Irz, MD^a,_*, Mustafa Hakan Zor, MD^a, Nalan Akyurek, MD^b

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Gazi University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
^b Department of Pathology, Gazi University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Iriz, Gazi Üniversitesi Tp Fakültesi Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi AD, Beevler, Ankara, 06500, Turkey (Email: erkaniriz@hotmail.com).

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A 49-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with precordial pain radiating to the left arm. A posteroanterior chest roentgenogram showed severe enlargement in heart shadow and upper mediastinum, and deviation in the trachea (Fig 1a). An echocardiogram revealed aortic insufficiency of the fourth degree and enlargement in the ascending . . . [Full Text of this Article]