Syphilitic obstruction of coronary ostia successfully treated by endarterectomy.
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Syphilitic obstruction of coronary ostia successfully treated by endarterectomy.
Occlusion or narrowing of the coronary ostia by syphilitic aortitis is a rare disease. In 1950 Scharfman, Wallach, and Angrist, reviewing several large necropsy series, reported 935 cases of syphilitic aortitis in 33,176 necropsies. Of these, 24 had involvement of the coronary ostia. Effective treatment by endarterectomy has been reported by Blondeau and Dubost (1962), Michaud et al. (1963), an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1965
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.27.6.911