CASE REPORTS  VASCULAR SECTION 

The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 2004 April;45(2):149-52

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language: English

Aortoplasty with a bovine venous xenograft for pseudoaneurysm after heart transplantation

Omoto T., Minami K., Deyerling K. W., Tenderich G., Breymann T., Körfer R.

Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany

The case was a 54-year-old man after orthotopic heart transplantation with infected pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta. The operation was performed with hypothermic circulatory arrest. Pseudoaneurysm was excised and aortoplasty was performed with a bovine venous xenograft patch. Six months after the operation, and 2 years after transplantation, the patient is doing well.