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Ann Thorac Surg 2003;75:1331
© 2003 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Images in cardiothoracic surgery

Mycotic false aneurysm of the ascending aorta

Satoshi Saito, MD, PhDa, Adrian P. Banning, MRCP, FECSa, Hank Giele, FRCSa, Stephen Westaby, PhD, FECTSa*

a Department of Cardiac Surgery, Oxford Heart Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom

* Address reprint requests to Dr Westaby, Department of Cardiac Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
e-mail: swestaby@ahf.org.uk

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This 62-year-old man had previously undergone aortic valve replacement followed by mitral valve replacement with mechanical bileaflet prostheses for endocarditis. After the second operation he had a chronic sternal infection that required bone excision and pectoral muscle flap closure. He presented again 9 months later with acute central chest pain, ischemic legs, and a rapidly expanding pulsatile mass through the sternal defect. Preoperative computed tomographic scan showed a mycotic false aneurysm of . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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