Primary Intraluminal Tumor of the Aorta Producing Malignant Hypertension

Abstract

PRIMARY intraluminal tumors of the aorta must be exceedingly rare. There is, to our knowledge, only 1 other case in the literature that resembles to any degree the case reported below.1 Our patient is a young woman in whom a tumor of mesenchymal origin occluded the aorta just beyond the arch, producing the physical signs of coarctation of the aorta. Furthermore, extension of the tumor into the renal arteries resulted in the clinical features of malignant hypertension of the Goldblatt-kidney type.Successful surgical removal of the tumor and its extensions has resulted in complete resolution of the hypertensive disease.Case . . .