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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Aug 2010
Case ReportsSuccessful aortic reimplantation in a three-year-old child with Marfan syndrome.
- Yoshinori Miyahara, Shingo Kasahara, Masami Takagaki, and Shunji Sano.
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2-5-1 Shikata-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. giten@fd5.so-net.ne.jp
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 Aug 1; 11 (2): 218-20.
AbstractAortic root dilatation is rare in children, and is often secondary to Marfan syndrome (MFS). We experienced a case of a three-year-old boy (92 cm, 12 kg) with MFS presenting with progressive dilatation of aortic root. We electively performed a valve-sparing aortic root replacement using a 24-mm Gelweave Valsalva graft. Although the patient required a mitral valve repair due to infective endocarditis postoperatively, the recovery from the second surgery was uneventful. This case is one of the youngest children of valve-sparing aortic root replacement in the literature.
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