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  • Title: Unknown ankylosing spondylitis with only cardiac involvement in patient with surgical indication: Call for patient and family members immunological screening.
    Author: De Cicco G, Vizzardi E, Gelsomino S, Lorusso R.
    Journal: Int J Cardiol; 2009 Nov 12; 137(3):e61-2. PubMed ID: 19439376.
    Abstract:
    Aortic regurgitation (AR) and first-degree atrioventricular heart block (FDAVB) are encountered in ankylosing spondylitis (AS). This rheumatological disease also presents in 90% of the cases an immunogenetic marker that is Human Leucocyte Antigen-B27 (HLA-B27). In this report we describe a case of a patient presenting with AR, FDAVB, aneurysm and thinning of the ascending aortic wall, aneurysm of the sinuses of Valsalva and inferior myocardial infarction-like electrocardiographic pattern with unknown cardiac AS and absence of other AS-related systemic manifestations.
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