title: Using fascia lata to treat infective aortic false aneurysm.
abstract: In patients with infective aortic false aneurysms, repair using artificial materials is in danger of becoming an additional focus for infection. We used harvested autologous fascia lata as a vascular patch in such operations on 2 patients with infected mediastinal false aneurysm after coronary artery bypass surgery. These patients have not had any recurrences of mediastinitis and false aneurysm for 4 to 6 years after the operations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Yokohama, Japan. pxc02607@nifty.ne.jp
authors.forename: Ichiya
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: Yukio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ichikawa
authors.forename: Masanori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: Toshiyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hamada
authors.forename: Hirokazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kajiwara
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000601:surgery*; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000601:surgery*; D001014:Aortic Aneurysm / Q000601:surgery*; D005206:Fascia Lata / Q000637:transplantation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous