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Gabriel E Cambronero1, Elizabeth C Wood1, Kim M Linden1
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports
|January 10, 2025
Abstract:
Aortopulmonary fistulas are a rare complication of aortic root replacements associated with aortic aneurysms. We describe a patient with a sinus of Valsalva pseudoaneurysm associated with a Freestyle root replacement that fistulized to a distal pulmonary valve homograft after having 2 prior aortic and pulmonary valve surgeries. After a failed endovascular closure attempt, he underwent a third operation for repair.

