An Aortic Pseudoaneurysm following Bentall Procedure

An Aortic Pseudoaneurysm following Bentall Procedure.

We describe a rare case of an ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm detected incidentally at coronary angiography in a 64-year-old man with a history of a Bentall procedure 8 years previously. The patient underwent reoperation, with longitudinal opening and cleaning of the aortic pseudoaneurysm and graft repair of the defect. This report highlights the insidious late onset of pseudoaneurysm and the i...

Pseudoaneurysm of the Ascending Aorta Following Bentall Procedure

We report the case of young man with acute aortic dissection type A treated by Bentall operation. Postoperatively the patient was febrile and echocardiography revealed fluid collection around the aortic graft. Indicated surgery revealed sterile perigraft seroma which recurred after reoperation, Corticosteroids were therefore administered. Ten months after the Bentall operation the patient was t...

Asymptomatic giant pseudoaneurysm in the ascending aorta after Bentall procedure

Late cerebrospinal fluid drainage for paraplegia developed following Bentall procedure for acute type a aortic dissection

Methods A 51 year old woman who had chest and back pain and syncope, was admitted to emergency department. Thorax CT revealed acute type A aortic dissection and she underwent emergency surgery. Modified Bentall procedure along with hemiarch replacement was performed using antegrade selective cerebral perfusion. The next day she developed cardiac tamponade and ischemia of the left leg. Re-explor...

Late lumen loss in thoracic aortic end graft after endovascular procedure of a traumatic pseudoaneurysm

We report the case of a 23-year-old woman who died due to endograft stenosis 20 months after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. The patient presented with the pseudocoarctation syndrome. Although angioplasty of stenosis endograft was successfully performed, severe metabolic complications were lethal.