Common Variable Immunodeficiency Causing Granulomatous Disease
of the Abdominal Aorta with Aneuysm Formation
AJ Turner MBChB BSc, RFM Wood FRCS, W Egner
MRCP
Corresponding address: Sheffield Vascular
Institute, Northern General Hospital, Herries Road, Sheffield
S5 7AU
Abstract
In 1995 a 42-year old patient with common variable
immunodeficiency associated with granulomatous disease had an
elective repair of a granulomatous abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Five years later he presented with a ruptured false aneurysm of
the left common iliac artery. Granulomata may cause aneurysm formation
and weaken surgical anastomoses.
Key words
Common variable immunodeficiency, granulomatous
disease, granulomatous abdominal aortic aneurysm
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