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High-Risk Repair of Ascending Aortic Aneurysm Due to Giant Cell Aortitis

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA

For reprint information contact: Y Joseph Woo, MD Tel: 1 215 662 2956 Fax: 1 215 349 5798 Email: wooy{at}uphs.upenn.edu, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Silverstein 4, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

Giant cell arteritis increases the risk of developing a thoracic aortic aneurysm. Thoracic aortic aneurysm repair in octogenarians carries a profound increase in postoperative morbidity and mortality. We report the successful repair of an ascending aortic aneurysm in an 83-year-old woman with a history of treatment for temporal arteritis and pathologic evidence of giant cell aortitis.