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DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1694013
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Infectious Aortic Root Pseudoaneurysm after Bentall Procedure: To Treat or Not to Treat by Redo Operation?

Guglielmo Saitto 
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Policlinic of Rome, Rome, Italy
,
Marco Russo 
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Policlinic of Rome, Rome, Italy
,
Marta Pugliese
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Policlinic of Rome, Rome, Italy
,
Sara R. Vacirca
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Policlinic of Rome, Rome, Italy
,
Fabio Bertoldo
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Policlinic of Rome, Rome, Italy
,
Paolo Nardi
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Policlinic of Rome, Rome, Italy
,
Giovanni Ruvolo
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Tor Vergata University Policlinic of Rome, Rome, Italy
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20 March 2017

24 April 2019

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15 October 2019 (online)

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Abstract

We present a case of a 75-year-old man who developed an early aortic bioprosthesis endocarditis due to Klebsiella pneumoniae complicated by aortic root pseudoaneurysm after Bentall procedure. A prompt surgical option was hypothesized, but we decided to wait and keep on clinical observation and antibiotic therapy. One year after discharge, we observed stable clinical conditions and echocardiographic findings. A question: to treat or not to treat by redo operation an infectious aortic root pseudoaneurysm?

Keywords

prosthetic valve endocarditis - aortic root pseudoaneurysm - redo operation
 

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