Rupture of donor ascending aorta following heart transplantation.

Acute type A aortic dissection in a cardiac allograft recipient: case report and review of the literature.

Dissection of the ascending aorta is uncommon in cardiac allograft recipients and usually affects the native aorta. The diagnosis is often made at necropsy. The first case is reported of a Bentall procedure performed in a heart transplant recipient who presented with ascending aortic dissection of the donor aorta and concomitant aortic regurgitation seven years after orthotopic transplantation.

The duet played by two donor hearts beating simultaneously in a patient.

A man with end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy had undergone orthotopic heart transplantation followed by heterotopic heart transplantation at the age of 52 years in 2001.1 After the procedure, he had lived uneventfully with the cooperation of 2 donor hearts working in his body. In 2009, 8 years after transplantation, the patient underwent scheduled cardiac catheterization. Retrograde cannulation ...

Incomplete rupture of the ascending aorta with secondary aneurysm.

Experimental orthotopic heart and bilateral lung transplantation completed without cardiopulmonary bypass.

INTRODUCTION Most experimental studies of orthotopic heart and lung graft failure are complicated by an inability to eliminate the rejection-specific inflammatory mediator from the cardiopulmonary bypass. METHODS The following model was developed in our laboratory to investigate the feasibility of performing an orthotopic heart and bilateral lung transplantation without performing a cardiopul...

Aortic Pseudo aneurysm 3 Years after Interposition Tube Graft for Acute Dissection of Ascending Aorta

Introduction: Patients with primary acute aortic dissection are at higher risk of complications, including increasing aortic aneurysm diameter, aortic rupture, aortic pseudo aneurysm, and recurrent aortic dissection. Case presentation We presented the case of a recurrent pseudo aneurysm and rupture of the aorta in the distal a...