TY - JOUR
T1 - Aortic Root Pseudoaneurysm Caused by Mycobacterium Chimaera
AU - Shah, Vishal N.
AU - Orlov, Oleg I.
AU - Sternlieb, Mitchell P.
AU - Plestis, Konstadinos A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - Nontuberculous mycobacteria cause severe pulmonary, vascular graft, and bloodstream infections after cardiac surgery. Patient prognosis remains poor because of delays in diagnosis and treatment. Complicated aortic root infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria have been mostly fatal. We describe a case of a 50-year-old man who developed an invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infection with an aortic root pseudoaneurysm after a Bentall-de Bono procedure for a Stanford type A aortic dissection.
AB - Nontuberculous mycobacteria cause severe pulmonary, vascular graft, and bloodstream infections after cardiac surgery. Patient prognosis remains poor because of delays in diagnosis and treatment. Complicated aortic root infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria have been mostly fatal. We describe a case of a 50-year-old man who developed an invasive Mycobacterium chimaera infection with an aortic root pseudoaneurysm after a Bentall-de Bono procedure for a Stanford type A aortic dissection.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.06.050
DO - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2018.06.050
M3 - Article
C2 - 30081026
AN - SCOPUS:85060249943
SN - 0003-4975
VL - 107
SP - e89-e91
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
IS - 2
ER -