title: Intraoperative rupture of the donor aorta during heart transplantation: surgical management with a Bentall-de Bono procedure.
abstract: Aortic complications are uncommon in cardiac allograft recipients. Primary acute aortic rupture is an extremely rare and dramatic event that can occur in the early phase after transplantation. In this article we describe a case of acute intraoperative rupture of the donor aorta just after aortic declamping during orthotopic cardiac transplantation procedure, successfully treated with a Bentall-De Bono operation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Bologna, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy. allucbot@tiscali.it
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Botta
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Suarez
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dell'Amore
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grigioni
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Arpesella
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Di Bartolomeo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Marinelli
mesh_terms: D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000601:surgery; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000601:surgery*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome