Giant pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta after double-valve replacement

Giant pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta after double-valve replacement.

A 47-year old man presented with a large chest swelling 10 months following aortic and mitral valve replacement. Computed tomography revealed a huge ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm (Fig. 1A and B). After establishing hypothermic circulatory arrest through an axillary-femoral bypass, a median sternotomy was performed. The defects were directly closed using two interrupted, pledgeted 4-0 Prolene ...

Pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta after aortic valve replacement.

A 58-year-old man with fever and chest wall tenderness was seen 8 weeks after aortic valve replacement. His initial postoperative course had been complicated by mediastinitis, requiring antibiotics and surgical debridement. A transthoracic echocardiogram did not reveal the culprit lesion. Pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta was suspected, based on computerized tomographic and magnetic resonan...

Asymptomatic giant pseudoaneurysm in the ascending aorta after Bentall procedure

Surgical Repair of a Pseudoaneurysm of the Ascending Aorta after Previous Aortic Valve Replacement and Aneurysmorrhaphy

We report the case of a patient with a pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta. He was referred to our hospital because of chest pain and dyspnea. A preoperative diagnostic evaluation revealed a large pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta close to the proximal anastomotic site of the graft. During surgery, the pseudoaneurysm originated from an intimal defect in the aortic wall on the right side o...

non-infectious pseudoaneurysm of ascending aorta following redo-aortic valve replacement

a 46 year old man had been undergone aortic valve replacement (avr) due to mechanical aortic valve endocarditis two month ago. he was referred to imam khomeini hospital because of dyspnea since two weeks ago. echocardiography showed the false aneurysm, with an area of flow beyond the lumen of the aorta. this patient underwent reoperation, the previously implanted aortic valve was removed, metic...