Diagnosis of pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta after implantation of a valved conduit by multiplane transesophageal echocardiography
Beyer, M.E.; Voelker, W.; Hoffmeister, H.M.
Zeitschrift für Kardiologie 83(8): 595-598
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-5860 PMID: 7975811 Document Number: 426481
In a 48-year-old male patient with Marfan syndrome who underwent composite graft replacement of the ascending aorta and the aortic valve with reimplantation of the coronary arteries a cardiac enlargement was detected by routine chest x-ray. Transthoracal echocardiography showed a pseudoaneurysm around the composite graft. The examination with a multiplane transesophageal echocardiographic probe demonstrated a systolic-diastolic jet into the pseudoaneurysm with the site of origin at the ostium of the right coronary artery.