Giant Aortic Root Pseudoaneurysm Surrounding the Left Main Coronary Artery

A 69-year-old patient underwent an urgent aortic valve replacement because of Streptococcus agalactiae endocarditis of his native aortic valve. Since a rapid progression of the former abscess cavity into an aortic root pseudoaneurysm with increasing paravalvular regurgitation during postoperative fo...

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Autores principales: Segers, Zjuul, Houthuizen, Patrick, van Straten, Albert HM, Peels, Kathinka C, Bouwman, R Arthur
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8617378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34747766
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_39_20
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Sumario:A 69-year-old patient underwent an urgent aortic valve replacement because of Streptococcus agalactiae endocarditis of his native aortic valve. Since a rapid progression of the former abscess cavity into an aortic root pseudoaneurysm with increasing paravalvular regurgitation during postoperative follow-up, reoperation was performed. In the preoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) images the pseudoaneurysm completely surrounds the left coronary artery (LCA) without any signs of myocardial ischemia.

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