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Follow-up for 30 years of a case of aortitis causing coarctation in infancy with dermatitis gangrenosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Wei Li  and
Jane Somerville
Wei Li
Affiliation:
Grown-Up Congenital Heart Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
Jane Somerville*
Affiliation:
Grown-Up Congenital Heart Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
*
Dr. Jane Somerville, Grown-Up Congenital Heart Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP United Kingdom. Tel: 0171-351-8601; Fax: 0171-351-8201
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Abstract

A patient with aortitis presented in infancy with dermatitis gangrenosa. Coarctation of the aorta was subsequently produced by granulomatous tissue. We report 30 years of medical observation.

Keywords

Dermatitisaortitissystemic hypertension
Type
Brief Reports
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 331 - 333
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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