Surgical treatment of recurrent abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Reports of true abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAS), especially those due to severe inflammation, in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are very few in number. However, we had the experience of surgically treating a recurrent AAA due to severe inflammation found in a patient with SLE. The recurrence took place after an earlier operation for an infrarenal AAA and involved the left renal artery. In both situations, the previous infrarenal aaa and the recurrence, the aneurysms demonstrated more rapid growth and more irregularities in shape. Etiology of the AAA might be a combination of Takayasu's arteritis and SLE because the two entities appeared to have overlapped.

Citation

N Washiyama, T Kazui, M Takinami, K Yamashita, H Terada, B A Muhammad, K Miura. Surgical treatment of recurrent abdominal aortic aneurysm in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus. Journal of vascular surgery : official publication, the Society for Vascular Surgery [and] International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, North American Chapter. 2000 Jul;32(1):209-12

Mesh Tags

PMID: 10876227

search → result