[Acute aortic dissection in a patient with Marfan's syndrome and severe pectus excavatum--emergency surgical repairs of ascending aortic dissection and aortic regurgitation complicated by pectus excavatum in Marfan's syndrome].
A case of acute aortic dissection Stanford Type A occurring in a patient with Marfan's syndrome, complicated with aortic regurgitation and severe pectus excavatum, is reported with successful surgical correction. The patient was a 33-year-old woman, who suffered from severe back pain riding to work. An emergency operation consisting of Cabrol's procedure for aortic dissection Stanford Type A and sternal turnover for pectus excavatum was performed simultaneously. Because of the postoperative mediastinal bleeding the implanted sterno-costal complex was removed on the second POD and the prosthetic sternum was reimplanted on the tenth POD. The two-stage operation seems preferable in such an emergency case to avoid postoperative bleeding and infection.
Shioi
K
K
Second Department of Surgery, Aichi Medical University, Japan.
Nagata
Y
Y
Sugimoto
I
I
Mase
T
T
Katoh
S
S
Tsuchioka
H
H
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000784:Aortic Dissection / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001011:Aorta / Q000601:surgery*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D001022:Aortic Valve Insufficiency / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008382:Marfan Syndrome / Q000150:complications*