we report a unique case of chronic dissection of the ascending aorta complicated with huge and thrombotic pseudoaneurysm in a patient with coarctation of descending aorta. preoperative investigations such as transesophageal echocardiography (tee) confirmed the diagnosis of dissection. intraoperative findings included a12 cm eccentric bulge of the right lateral side of dilated the ascending aort...

Pseudoaneurysms of the ascending aorta are relatively uncommon compared with those evolving from the left ventricle. In a young man with endocarditis of the aortic valve who developed a pseudoaneurysm arising from the ascending aorta, the diagnosis was established with the pulsed Doppler technique and cross sectional echocardiography by passing the Doppler sample from the aorta through the neck...

BACKGROUND After surgery to repair a type A aortic dissection, most late complications and mortality result from descending aorta-related problems. This study was performed to determine the risk factors leading to descending aortic aneurysm formation and late mortality in patients undergoing the type A aortic dissection operation. METHODS The medical records of patients who survived the opera...

A 39-year-old white man with acute rheumatic fever at the age of 19 years remained asymptomatic until 3 years before demise, when he started to have fainting episodes associated with chest pain and one year later symptoms of congestive heart failure. Examination at the Ohio State University Hospital showed signs of aortic stenosis, and cardiac catheterization revealed a pressure gradient of 90 ...

A 51-year-old man with hypertension had previously been admitted to our cardiothoracic unit with a type A aortic dissection (Stanford classification) and had undergone emergency surgery with partial replacement of the ascending aorta. Routine follow-up magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) 19 months after the operation revealed an aneurysm at the incision site in the ascending aorta and extensio...

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...