A Loeys-Dietz patient with a transatlantic odyssey: repeated aortic root surgery ending with a huge left main coronary aneurysm.
We present a patient who required several aortic root procedures. Finally, a huge aneurysm of the left main coronary artery required emergency surgery after a failed transcatheter procedure.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland thierry.carrel@insel.ch.
Thierry
T
Carrel
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland.
Florian
F
Schoenhoff
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Duke
D
Cameron
D000328:Adult; D017541:Aneurysm, False / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D003323:Coronary Aneurysm / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D055947:Loeys-Dietz Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D012086:Reoperation; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*
Aortic root replacement; Graft infection; Left main coronary aneurysm; Loeys–Dietz syndrome