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Aortic surgery in Marfan patients with severe pectus excavatum
Giuseppe Maria Raffa1, Mariusz Kowalewski, Pietro Giorgio Malvindi
1aDepartment for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, IRCCS - ISMETT (Istituto Mediterraneo per I Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione), via E. Tricomi n. 5, 90127, Palermo, Italy bDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Dr Antoni Jurasz Memorial University Hospital, Maria Curie Sklodowska Str 9. 85-094, Bydgoszcz, Poland cUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom.
Aims:
The optimal surgical management of the aortic root phenotype Marfan patients with severe pectus excavatum is a subject of debate. All the available literature were reviewed according to preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) principles in order to assess the early outcomes of both pectus excavatum and aortic repair techniques.
Methods:
Searches were done in PubMed and MEDLINE electronic databases dating from July 1953 to December 2015.
Results:
A total of 97 peer-reviewed publications were retrieved, and 27 relevant publications were identified with a total of 39 Marfan patients with pectus excavatum who underwent ascending aorta and aortic root surgery. Emergency acute Type-A aortic dissection repair was reported in five cases. Concomitant pectus excavatum and aortic root repair and composite graft implantation were the most commonly performed procedures. Complications after a staged or a combined approach were uncommon and no deaths occurred.
Conclusion:
Aortic surgery in Marfan patients with pectus excavatum was carried out according to a variety of strategies, surgical techniques and accesses with low complications rate and no mortality. Many of these were well tolerated with minimal complications and no mortality.
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