Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
J Vasc Surg. 2010 Feb;51(2):468-70. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.08.058.
A 53-year-old woman with no classic risk factors for aneurysm disease presented with the sudden onset of chest pain and dyspnea. A large descending thoracic aortic aneurysm with focal type B dissection was identified and excluded by emergency thoracic endografting. Further postoperative evaluation revealed a history of epistaxis, perioral telangiectasias, hepatic hypervascularity, and a mutation in the gene expressing activin receptor-like kinase 1 (ALK1), leading to a diagnosis of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. Aortic aneurysms associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia are extremely rare, and to our knowledge, this is the first report of thoracic endografting in this patient population.
一位 53 岁的女性,无典型的动脉瘤病危险因素,突发胸痛和呼吸困难。经急诊胸主动脉腔内修复术(thoracic endografting)发现并排除了一个大型降主动脉胸动脉瘤伴局灶性 B 型夹层。进一步的术后评估显示,患者有鼻出血、口周毛细血管扩张、肝脏血管增生和激活素受体样激酶 1(activin receptor-like kinase 1,ALK1)基因突变的病史,最终诊断为遗传性出血性毛细血管扩张症。与遗传性出血性毛细血管扩张症相关的主动脉瘤非常罕见,据我们所知,这是该患者人群中首例胸主动脉腔内修复术的报告。