• J Card Surg · Oct 2020

    Case Reports

    Successful treatment of thoracic aortic graft infection by omental flap following vacuum-assisted closure therapy.

    • Rıza Türköz, Abdullah Doğan, Yasemin Türkekul, and Emre Özker.
    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Acibadem Bakirkoy Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
    • J Card Surg. 2020 Oct 1; 35 (10): 2857-2859.

    BackgroundPostoperative thoracic aortic graft infection (TAGI) is a serious and potentially fatal complication. The classical approach is to replace the infected graft. However, this approach has a high mortality rate. Alternatively, treatment of TAGI without graft replacement can be performed METHOD: Herein, we present a 72-year-old case with mediastinitis and graft infection after type A aortic dissection operation and successful treatment using omental flap coverage following vacuum-assisted wound closure therapy without graft replacement.ConclusionThe patient had an uneventful postoperative course and remains infection-free to date.© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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