RESECTION OF ENTIRE ASCENDING AORTA IN FUSIFORM ANEURYSM USING CARDIAC BYPASS

摘要: Fusiform aneurysm of the ascending aorta is a common form aortic disease and associated with grave prognosis. Although excisional therapy now established as method choice for aneurysms aorta, this treatment has been limited until present time to sacciform lesions in which neck relatively small. In such instances tangential excision lateral aortorrhaphy may be curative if adjacent wall not also involved by degenerative process. fusiform most extensive cannot utilized segmental resection homograft replacement necessary. Because fatal consequences from even brief occlusion no anatomic location treated successfully resection. This report concerned