Open AccessREDO-BENTALL OPERATION – ITERATIVE AORTIC ROOT RECOSTRUCTION – THERAPEUTIC DECISION-MAKING COMPLEXITY AND PROCEDURAL COMPLEXITY
Author(s) -
Celia Ciobanu,
Cristian Voica,
Bogdan Rădulescu,
Horațiu Moldovan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of surgical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2457-5364
pISSN - 2360-3038
DOI - 10.33695/jss.v1i2.176
Subject(s) - medicine , bentall procedure , ascending aorta , aortic root , aortic dissection , surgery , aorta , endocarditis , aortic valve , abscess , cardiology , duct (anatomy) , aortic aneurysm
We present the case of a 59-year-old woman who undergoes surgery 12 years after the Bentall-de Bono operation (replacement of the aortic valve and ascending aorta with valvular duct and direct reimplantation of the coronaryan ostia in the duct). For the acute aortic dissection of type I De Bakey (Stanford type A), diagnosed with subacute infectious endocarditis at the level of the aortic valvular duct with abscess in the aortic root.