Dissection of the Ascending Aorta in a Patient with HLA-B27 Associated Ankylosing Spondylitis.

J Rheumatol. 2008 Mar 15;

Authors: Juan A, Ibáñez M, Sáez de Ibarra JI, Ros I, Crémer D, Rosell J

OBJECTIVE: We describe a 38-year-old patient with ankylosing spondylitis complicated by a non-traumatic dissection of the ascending aorta without concomitant Marfan's syndrome.

PMID: 18381776 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]