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Aortic Dissection After Aortic Valve Replacement

A Case Report and Literature Review

Istituto di Clinica Medica, Istituto di Cardiochirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy.

Marta Focardi, MD

Istituto di Clinica Medica, Istituto di Cardiochirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy.

Gianni Capannini, MD

Istituto di Cardiochirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy.

Sergio Mondillo, MD

Istituto di Clinica Medica, Istituto di Cardiochirurgia, Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy.

Type A aortic dissection occurs in 0.6% of patients late after aortic valve replacement. However, little information is available about risk factors for developing this complication, nor are recommendations for elective replacement of the ascending aorta available. The authors present a 78-year-old woman who developed type A aortic dissection thirty months after aortic valve replacement; ascending aorta was normal at the time of aortic valve replacement.

Angiology, Vol. 54, No. 6, 715-719 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/000331970305400612


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