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Transesophageal echocardiography-guided closed aortic plication for intraoperative aortic dissection
Hironori Izutani1, Inderjit S Gill, Robert S Finkelhor
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Foundation, 2500 Metro Health Drive, 3rd Floor Hamann Building, Cleveland, Ohio 44109-1998, USA.
The Japanese Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery : Official Publication of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery = Nihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi
|November 19, 2003
Abstract:
A 71-year-old female who developed intraoperative aortic dissection after coronary artery bypass grafting underwent a successful closed aortic plication with obliteration of the intimal tear under image guided transesophageal echocardiography.