Ascending aorta false aneurysm as a late complication of aortic valve surgery
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Non-infected false aneurysm of the ascending aorta eight years after aortic valve surgery.
In this report, the development of false aneurysm of the ascending aorta 8 years following the repair of congenital aortic stenosis is described. A 14-year-old male patient was found to have congenital aortic stenosis in 1966 after medical check-up and subsequently operated upon. In the postoperative period, he was complicated by remittent fever of 1 month's duration, which was finally controll...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0370-8179,2406-0895
DOI: 10.2298/sarh1212765b