Clinically isolated aortitis: A diagnosis of exclusion?

Scritto il 30/06/2026
da Pradeep Vaideeswar

Indian J Pathol Microbiol. 2026 Apr 1;69(2):343-347. doi: 10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_219_25. Epub 2026 Jun 2.

ABSTRACT

In some patients, ascending aortic aneurysms or dissections produce aortitis, not associated with clinical or investigational evidence of infective or non-infective vasculitis or systemic diseases. This type of aortitis is termed clinically isolated aortitis, which is often a surprise finding in surgical pathological material. We report a series of five such cases in patients in their fifth decade of life with an almost equal sex distribution.

PMID:42378589 | DOI:10.4103/ijpm.ijpm_219_25