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Successful beating‐heart repair of pulmonary artery dissection using a composite valve‐tube graft
Author(s) -
Biasi Andreas R.,
Wang Hanjay,
Medina Melissa G.,
Burton Elan,
Ogden W. David
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.15459
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary artery , dissection (medical) , surgery , pulmonary hypertension , cardiology , aneurysm , pulmonary valve
Pulmonary artery dissection is rare but highly lethal. Recent reports suggest that surgical repair of pulmonary artery dissection may yield good outcomes in selected patients, although postoperative right ventricular failure and death have been described. Currently, only one patient over age 60 years old has been reported to survive open surgical repair of pulmonary artery dissection. Here, we present the case of a sexagenarian with pulmonary artery hypertension complicated by a dissected pulmonary artery aneurysm which was successfully repaired using a composite valve‐tube graft under a beating‐heart strategy.