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Metachronous aortic aneurysms due to sarcoidosis
Author(s) -
Hou Li,
Masuda Masanori,
Akashi Michiaki,
Kido Shinichi,
Takase Yukari,
Kai Keita,
Tokunaga Osamu
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
pathology international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1827
pISSN - 1320-5463
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2012.02787.x
Subject(s) - sarcoidosis , medicine , cardiac tamponade , lymph , tamponade , aortic aneurysm , aneurysm , thoracic aortic aneurysm , radiology , cardiology , pathology
A 62‐year‐old male developed metachronous aortic aneurysms at different locations over an interval of one year and three months. He was diagnosed to have sarcoid aneurysms due to the presence of noncaseating epithelioid granulomas in the aortic wall and lymph nodes. The patient was treated with steroids, but his sarcoidosis progressed gradually and extended into other major organs, and the lungs and heart were clinically determined to have been involved by sarcoidosis. He died of cardiac tamponade four years after the first operation for an aortic aneurysm.