REPLACEMENT OF AORTIC ROOT WITH VALVED TUBULAR PROSTHESIS IN A 10-YEAR-OLD CHILD WITH INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
DEMIRCIN M DOGAN R GUVENER M YILMAZ M CELIKER A PASAOGLU I
Citation
M. Demircin et al., REPLACEMENT OF AORTIC ROOT WITH VALVED TUBULAR PROSTHESIS IN A 10-YEAR-OLD CHILD WITH INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS - A CASE-REPORT, Angiology, 49(11), 1998, pp. 941-944
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Peripheal Vascular Diseas
Journal title
Angiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00033197
Volume
49
Issue
11
Year of publication
1998
Pages
941 - 944
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-3197(1998)49:11<941:ROARWV>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Aortic root abscess, aneurysm of sinus Valsalva, severe aortic valve i nsufficiency, and a fragile aortic wall caused by infective endocardit is were found in a 10-year-old child. Aortic valve replacement was int ended as a preoperative strategy, but one of modifications of Cabrol h ad to be used urgently because of aortic root rupture between right at rial and aortic connection just after pericardiotomy.