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Emergent David-V operation for a ruptured aortic root aneurysm in a 9-year-old child.

Kato Y, Ohashi H, Tsutsumi Y, Kawai T

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fukui Cardiovascular Center, Shinbo 2-228 Fukui, Japan. ayak0511@yahoo.co.jp

Ruptured aortic root aneurysm is very rare in children less than 10 years of age. Isolated dilatation of the ascending aorta and/or aortic root in a child is mostly associated with Marfan's syndrome, and the standard surgical treatment is aortic root replacement with a composite valve graft or homograft. We report here a successful emergent T. David-V operation using two grafts of different sizes for a ruptured aortic root aneurysm in a 9-year-old child with Marfan's syndrome.

Published 19 March 2007 in Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, 31(4): 744-6.
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