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Successful outcome after massive bleeding in a heart transplant recipient with mycotic aortitis. Case report
H Berggren1, E Berglin, U Kjellman
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Sudden mediastinal haemorrhage one month after heart transplantation in an 18-year-old youth was found to originate from a rupture of the ascending aorta associated with mycotic aortitis. Aortic continuity was restored with a Dacron graft. Cultures from the resected vessel wall showed Candida albicans. The patient recovered, and 11 months later is well.