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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 118-121 |
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Luetic aortopathy: Revisited
Bhushan Sevakram Madke1, Nandkishor Babulal Agrawal2, Pradeep Vaideeswar3, Mayuresh Pradhan2, Amey Vijay Rojekar3, Uday Sharadchandra Khopkar1
1 Department of Dermatology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
2 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
3 Department of Pathology (Cardiovascular and Thoracic Division), Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Bhushan Sevakram Madke
Department of Dermatology, OPD117, 1st floor, Old OPD Building, Seth GS Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai - 400 012, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0253-7184.75011
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We report a case of 38-year-old male, who presented with a large pulsatile swelling on the left side of the anterior chest wall of 4 months' duration with a gradual increase in size. He gave history of sexual promiscuity in the form of unprotected sexual intercourse prior to his marriage in his early 20s. He also gave a history of ulceration on coronal sulcus of glans penis 20 years back with painless right inguinal mass. His blood serology was strongly positive for syphilis and hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg); however, serology for retroviral infection was negative. Computed tomography-angiography confirmed the pulsatile swelling as aneurysm of the arch of and ascending aorta. In view of the history, positive serology, and imaging studies, we concluded the aortic aneurysm to be of syphilitic origin. We report this case due to its extreme rarity in the present antibiotic era. |
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