RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Idiopathic aortitis with calcification of ascending aorta, and aortic and mitral valves.
JF British Heart Journal
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP 650
OP 652
DO 10.1136/hrt.38.6.650
VO 38
IS 6
A1 Rose, A G
A1 Forman, R
YR 1976
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/38/6/650.abstract
AB A young woman with unexplained radiographic calcification of the ascending aorta was found at necropsy to have healed idiopathic aorititis. Calcification also involved the aortic valve which was stenosed and the mitral valve. Death was the result of infective endocarditis of these valves with aortic ring abscess, rupture of aortic root, and cardiac tamponade.