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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;84:1953-1954. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.08.058
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Original Articles: Cardiovascular

Invited commentary

Yutaka Okita, MD

Department of Surgery, Division II, Kobe University School of Medicine, 7-5-1, Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan

(Email: yokita@med.kobe-u.ac.jp).

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With aortic regurgitation in Takayasu’s arteritis it is believed that regurgitation develops primarily as a result of annular dilatation resulting from enlargement of the ascending aorta. The incidence of aortic regurgitation in Takayasu’s arteritis is 13% to 44%. Pathologically, the active phase was characterized by a granulomatous panarteritis with the lymphoplasmocytic infiltrate. Healed lesions showed progressive intimal and adventitial fibrosis. In Behçet’s disease, the cardiovascular complications related to aortic regurgitation and aortic or middle-sized arterial aneurysm formation were the leading cause of death. Aortic regurgitation is primarily due to valvulitis.

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Ann. Thorac. Surg. 2007 84: 1950-1953. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]





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