[Stenosis of the thoraco-abdominal aorta by endovascular calcification, with hypertension. Surgical treatment (author's transl)].

A case of a 24 year-old man in whom, following acute pulmonary oedema complicating hypertension known for a period of three years, stenosis of the thoraco-abdominal aorta produced by a large calcification within a zone of the aorta with an inflammatory appearance was demonstrated. This case is included within the context of the aortic syndrome. Operation led to normalisation of blood pressure immediately afterwords, but there was moderate hypertension 56 months later.