Vascular Involvement in Loeys-Dietz Syndrome

In 2003, a 16-year-old girl underwent a Bentall procedure after development of progressive dyspnea caused by an aneurysm of the ascending aorta and severe aortic regurgitation. Despite aortic aneurysm and retrognathia, no clinical findings of Marfan syndrome or Ehlers-Danlos syndrome were present. After the Bentall procedure, annual follow-up visits, including annual magnetic resonance angiography of the aorta, were performed, revealing, in 2007, an asymptomatic aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery measuring 14 mm, with a progression to 20 mm in 2016.
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