Inflammatory thoracic aortic aneurysm (lymphoplasmacytic thoracic aortitis): A 13-year experience at a German Heart Center with emphasis on possible role of IgG4

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1713-1722

  Agaimy, Abbas ^a   Weyand, Michael ^a   Strecker, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; IgG4; IgG4 related disease; Inflammatory aortic aneurysms; Lymphoplasmacytic thoracic aortitis; Periaortitis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4;

AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTITIS; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IGG4-RELATED DISEASE; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATORY AORTIC ANEURYSMS; LYMPHOPLASMACYTIC THORACIC AORTITIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PERIAORTITIS; PLASMA CELL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCLEROSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORACIC AORTA; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY;

AORTIC DISSECTION; IGG4; IGG4-RELATED DISEASE; INFLAMMATORY AORTIC ANEURYSMS; LYMPHOPLASMACYTIC THORACIC AORTITIS; PERIAORTITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; AORTITIS; AORTOGRAPHY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMA CELLS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCLEROSIS; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84885411519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19362625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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