Surgical Treatment of Pseudoaneurysm of the Ascending Aorta in a Patient with Sepsis

Surgical Treatment of Pseudoaneurysm of the Ascending Aorta in a Patient with Sepsis

Pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta (PAA) is a hazardous and potentially fatal cardiovascular disease. This condition is caused by the rupture of at least one layer of the vessel and contained by the remaining vascular layers or the surrounding mediastinal structures. We presented the surgical tre...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revista brasileira de cirurgia cardiovascular 2021-01, Vol.36 (2), p.261-264
Hauptverfasser: Zivkovic, Igor, Stankovic, Stefan, Krasic, Stasa, Peric, Miodrag, Stojanovic, Ivan
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Sprache:eng
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Aneurysm, False
Aorta
Body temperature
Brachiocephalic Trunk
CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS
Cardiovascular Diseases
Coronary vessels
Heart surgery
Hypertension
Hypothermia
Mortality
Multimedia
Patients
Pseudoaneurysm
Sepsis
SURGERY
Syncope
Tomography
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Zusammenfassung:Pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta (PAA) is a hazardous and potentially fatal cardiovascular disease. This condition is caused by the rupture of at least one layer of the vessel and contained by the remaining vascular layers or the surrounding mediastinal structures. We presented the surgical treatment of a patient with sepsis and large PAA and brachiocephalic trunk, which was compressing the brachiocephalic trunk leading to syncope.
ISSN:1678-9741
0102-7638
1678-9741
DOI:10.21470/1678-9741-2020-0258