[Syphilitic aortic regurgitation: a sexually transmissible cardiopathy]. / L'insuffisance aortique d'origine syphilitique : une cardiopathie sexuellement transmissible.

Syphilitic cardiovascular complications are currently rare. It concerns the tertiary phase of the disease and results in sacciform aneurysm of the thoracic aorta or ostial coronary artery stenosis. Syphilitic aortic regurgitation is even more rare. We illustrate it by a clinical observation and discuss its diagnosis and its treatment.