A case report of an unusual mycotic pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta

BACKGROUND: Mycotic pseudoaneurysms of the ascending aorta are a rare and devastating complication of previous cardiac surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an unusual case of a fungal mycotic pseudoaneurysm secondary to an aortic suture line successfully repaired under deep hypothermic circulatory...

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Autores principales: Mangel, Tobin P., Balmforth, Damian, Oo, Aung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9494755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36131353
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-022-01989-2
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description BACKGROUND: Mycotic pseudoaneurysms of the ascending aorta are a rare and devastating complication of previous cardiac surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an unusual case of a fungal mycotic pseudoaneurysm secondary to an aortic suture line successfully repaired under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with mycotic pseudoaneurysms of the aorta require a multidisciplinary team approach to prevent devastating complications that may occur in these complex surgical cases.
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spelling pubmed-94947552022-09-23 A case report of an unusual mycotic pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta Mangel, Tobin P. Balmforth, Damian Oo, Aung J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Mycotic pseudoaneurysms of the ascending aorta are a rare and devastating complication of previous cardiac surgery. CASE PRESENTATION: We present an unusual case of a fungal mycotic pseudoaneurysm secondary to an aortic suture line successfully repaired under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with mycotic pseudoaneurysms of the aorta require a multidisciplinary team approach to prevent devastating complications that may occur in these complex surgical cases. BioMed Central 2022-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9494755/ /pubmed/36131353 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-022-01989-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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