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Management of aortobronchial fistula with graft replacement and omentopexy
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
Massive hemoptysis due to a recurrent aortobronchial fistula after repair of a thoracic aortic aneurysm developed in a 64-year-old woman. The infected aortic tissue was resected and replaced with an in situ Dacron graft covered by omentum. The patient is alive and well 15 months later.