Cardiovascular syphilis: a rare medical diagnosis?
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A young man who presented with a short history of angina was found to have syphilitic coronary ostial stenosis six years after the primary infection. He was successfully treated with bilateral internal mammary grafts.
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Nowdays, cardiovascular manifestations of syphilis are uncommon. We report the case of a 69-year-old man who underwent surgery for saccular aneurysm of the ascending aorta associated with aortic regurgitation of this etiology, due to sexual transmission of the disease 25 years previously. The patient was born in Morocco and 2 years after surgery he remains asymptomatic.
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