PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - M Ritter AU - L von Segesser AU - R Jenni TI - Persistent root abscess after emergency repair with an aortic homograft. AID - 10.1136/hrt.72.5.495 DP - 1994 Nov 01 TA - British Heart Journal PG - 495--497 VI - 72 IP - 5 4099 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/72/5/495.short 4100 - http://heart.bmj.com/content/72/5/495.full SO - Heart1994 Nov 01; 72 AB - 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.