Surgery for pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta under moderate hypothermia

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dong-Hyup Lee¹  Tae-Eun Jung¹ 

[1] Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu, Korea

关键词: moderate hypothermia;    aortic valve replacement;    aortic pseudoaneurysm;   

Others  :  1153822
DOI  :  10.1186/1749-8090-6-125

 received in 2011-08-18, accepted in 2011-09-30,  发布年份 2011

【 摘 要 】

Pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta is a rare complication after cardiac surgery. Particularly, pseudoaneurysm due to postoperative infection in the ascending aorta requires surgical treatment with antibiotics. If a large sized pseudoaneurysm is located at the retrosternal space, then there is a very high risk of massive bleeding from rupture during performance of resternotomy. To avoid this risk, we performed femoro-femoral bypass under moderate hypothermia with transient circulatory arrest, and we report here on the successful result of this case.

【 授权许可】

   
2011 Jung and Lee; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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