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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 54, 983-984, Copyright © 1992 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Aneurysm of the ascending aorta after cardiac transplantation

JO Defraigne, O Vahdat, JP Lavigne, JC Demoulin and R Limet
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, C.H.U. Sart-Tilman, Leige, Belgium.

We report the case of a 57-year-old female cardiac transplant patient in whom an aneurysm of the recipient side of the ascending aorta developed 1 year after transplantation. Although a mycotic origin was the likely cause, histologic examination diagnosed an atherosclerotic aneurysm.

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