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Hideyuki Kunishige1, Yoshimitsu Ishibashi, Masakazu Kawasaki

  • 1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, National Hospital Organization Hokkaido Medical Center, 1-1 7-chome, Yamanote 5-jo, Nishi-ku, Sapporo 063-0005, Japan. kunishige@hok-mc.hosp.go.jp

General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|May 26, 2012
PubMed

A 32-year-old woman at 16 weeks of pregnancy was diagnosed with acute type A aortic dissection and severe aortic regurgitation. Aortic valve and aortic arch replacement was successfully performed under circulatory arrest with deep hypothermia. After the operation, she was diagnosed with Loeys-Dietz syndrome. At 36 weeks of gestation, the patient underwent a cesarean section and delivered a healthy baby.

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