European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on September 4, 2006
European Heart Journal 2007 28(4):442; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl232
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Periaortitis complicating chronic aortic dissection
Regional Medical Cardiology Centre, First Floor, West Wing, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6BA, UK
* Corresponding author. Tel: +44 2890633703; fax: +44 2890634821. E-mail address: paul.johnston@royalhospitals.n-i.nhs.uk
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A 34-year-old man with Marfan's syndrome was admitted with fever, weight loss, night sweats, low-back pain, and altered bowel habit. Three years earlier, he had suffered a type A aortic dissection involving the entire length of