Fig. 11

A 15-year-old girl of Indian origin presents with cough, night sweats and back pain. (a) A post-contrast CT abdominal angiogram coronal maximum intensity projection (MIP) demonstrates multifocal stenoses of the aortic hiatus and the suprarenal and infrarenal abdominal aorta (arrowheads). (b) An axial CT abdominal angiogram demonstrates severe luminal narrowing (*) of the infrarenal abdominal aorta, with circumferential periaortic soft tissue (arrow). The patient’s sputum cultures grew M. tuberculosis, with aortic appearance consistent with tuberculous aortitis