{"id":19254,"date":"2015-06-25T04:57:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T23:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=19254"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:09:21","slug":"coral-reef-aorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/coral-reef-aorta\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral reef aorta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHfFfw9Er-8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Coral reef aorta<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Heavy calcification of visceral part of aorta, extending into its lumen and causing malperfusion of limbs or viscera is known as &#8216;coral reef aorta&#8217; [1]. It may cause <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">hypertension<\/span> due to involvement of renal arteries, which was the commonest finding noted in about 44 percent of patients in one series with 70 patients [2]. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Intermittent claudication<\/span> due to lower limb ischemia was noted in a similar number of patients. About a quarter of them had <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">chronic visceral ischemia<\/span> causing abdominal pain, loose stools and weight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of them underwent aortic reconstruction with thromboendarterectomy in that series. Perioperative mortality was around twelve percent. Same centre published their experience on 80 patients later [3]. The frequency of renal ischemia causing hypertension and intermittent claudication was similar in the updated series. They describe removal of obstruction to renal, mesenteric (superior and inferior) and lower limb arteries. Long term follow up was obtained only in a third of patients, due to mortality and long distance to travel in an elderly population with poor health.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>References<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Belczak SQ, Sincos IR, Aun R, Costa KV, Araujo EA. Coral reef aorta, emergency surgical: case report and literature review. Einstein (Sao Paulo). 2014 Apr;12(2):237-41.<\/li>\n<li>Grotemeyer D, Pourhassan S, Rehbein H, Voiculescu A, Reinecke P, Sandmann W. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/22477301\/\">Int J Angiol. 2007 Fall;16(3):98-105<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sagban AT, Grotemeyer D, Rehbein H, Sandmann W, Duran M, Balzer KM, Grabitz K. Occlusive aortic disease as coral reef aorta &#8211; experience in 80 cases. Zentralbl Chir. 2010 Oct;135(5):438-44.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy calcification of visceral part of aorta, extending into its lumen and causing malperfusion of limbs or viscera is known as &#8216;coral reef aorta&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Coral reef aorta - Heavy calcification of visceral part of aorta<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Heavy calcification of visceral aorta, extending into its lumen &amp; causing malperfusion of limbs \/ viscera is known as &#039;coral reef aorta&#039;.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/coral-reef-aorta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Coral reef aorta - 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