Successful repair of a postcardiac surgery ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm

Constantinos Contrafouris; George Samanidis; Spyridoula Katsilouli; Ioannis Nenekidis; Antonios Roussakis; Konstantinos Perreas; Andrew Chatzis

doi:10.1002/ccr3.5893

Clinical Case Reports (May 2022)

Successful repair of a postcardiac surgery ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm

Constantinos Contrafouris,
George Samanidis,
Spyridoula Katsilouli,
Ioannis Nenekidis,
Antonios Roussakis,
Konstantinos Perreas,
Andrew Chatzis

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Constantinos Contrafouris: First Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece
George Samanidis: First Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece
Spyridoula Katsilouli: Department of Radiology Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece
Ioannis Nenekidis: First Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece
Antonios Roussakis: First Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece
Konstantinos Perreas: First Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece
Andrew Chatzis: First Department of Adult Cardiac Surgery Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center Athens Greece

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5893
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 5
pp. n/a – n/a

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Abstract We present the case of a 67‐year‐old asymptomatic man with a history of coronary artery bypass surgery and a pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta treated with a low‐risk alternate procedure. At 1‐year follow‐up, the cardiac computed tomography was not detected residual aneurysm in ascending aorta.

Published in Clinical Case Reports

ISSN: 2050-0904 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2050-0904

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