Persistent root abscess after emergency repair with an aortic homograft.
A fifty eight year old man with Marfan's syndrome and an aortic composite graft with a Björk-Shiley mechanical prosthesis presented with a large aortic root abscess caused by Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis. Despite extensive surgical debridement and implantation of an aortic homograft as a composite graft, early postoperative transoesophageal echocardiography continued to demonstrate a large aortic root abscess and the patient died in a septic shock.
Ritter
M
M
Division of Echocardiography, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
von Segesser
L
L
Jenni
R
R
D000038:Abscess / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D001011:Aorta / Q000637:transplantation; D001021:Aortic Valve; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010496:Pericardium / Q000637:transplantation; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus