REDO-BENTALL OPERATION – ITERATIVE AORTIC ROOT RECOSTRUCTION – THERAPEUTIC DECISION-MAKING COMPLEXITY AND PROCEDURAL COMPLEXITY

  • Celia Ciobanu Cardiovascular Surgery Unit I, “Prof. Dr. C.C. Iliescu” The Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases
  • C. Voica Cardiovascular Surgery Unit I, “Prof. Dr. C.C. Iliescu” The Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases
  • B. Rădulescu Cardiovascular Surgery Unit I, “Prof. Dr. C.C. Iliescu” The Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases
  • H. Moldovan Cardiovascular Surgery Unit I, “Prof. Dr. C.C. Iliescu” The Emergency Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases
Keywords: Redo-Bentall, aortic root reconstruction, heart surgery

Abstract

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.

Published
2018-11-02
How to Cite
[1]
C. Ciobanu, C. Voica, B. Rădulescu, and H. Moldovan, “REDO-BENTALL OPERATION – ITERATIVE AORTIC ROOT RECOSTRUCTION – THERAPEUTIC DECISION-MAKING COMPLEXITY AND PROCEDURAL COMPLEXITY”, JSS, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 67-70, Nov. 2018.
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