RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Persistent root abscess after emergency repair with an aortic homograft.
JF British Heart Journal
JO Heart
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
SP 495
OP 497
DO 10.1136/hrt.72.5.495
VO 72
IS 5
A1 M Ritter
A1 L von Segesser
A1 R Jenni
YR 1994
UL http://heart.bmj.com/content/72/5/495.abstract
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.