Abstract:Two patients with a unique aortic valvulitis required aortic valve replacement. Both were elderly women who presented with evidence of systemic disease, including fever, arthralgia, myalgia, markedly elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, anemia, leukocytosis, hypoalbuminemia and renal insufficiency, in addition to progressive subacute aortic insufficiency. Histologic examination of the excised aortic valve revealed a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate. Neither patient had evidence of other diseases that have been… Show more
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