Homograft Aortic Root Replacement with Saphenous Vein Graft Hemi-Cabrol for Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis

Ioannis Dimarakis1, Wilfred J Wooldridge1, Isaac Kadir1

  • 1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Aorta (Stamford, Conn.)
|January 23, 2016
PubMed

A 44-year-old female presented with prosthetic valve endocarditis with periannular abscess involving the left coronary ostium. We describe cryopreserved aortic homograft root replacement with hemi-Cabrol reimplantation of the left coronary ostium using the long saphenous vein.

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