Abstract
Rare diseases with similar clinical presentation as more frequent gastrointestinal disorders might be challenging in the diagnostic and therapeutic management. In this case we report on a 47-year-old woman who was thought to suffer from Crohn's disease. Symptoms, macroscopic and histological aspects of the gastrointestinal tract, treatment response and clinical course had encouraged the wrong diagnosis over a period of 23years. After the patient died in the context of a sudden clinical deterioration, fibromuscular dysplasia of the aorta was finally unmasked by post-mortem examination as underlying cause of all symptoms attributed to Crohn's disease. Re-evaluation of former diagnostic procedures revealed subtle aspects of fibromuscular dysplasia, even in biopsy samples from 23years ago. This first case report of fibromuscular dysplasia of the aorta documents a rare pitfall in the diagnostic workup of a frequent clinical presentation in gastroenterology.
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