%0 Journal Article
%T Repair of ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm eroding through the sternum
%A Fazal W Khan
%A Ghufranullah Khan
%A Mohammad Tariq
%A Shiraz Hashmi
%A Sulaiman B Hasan
%J Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
%@ 1816-5370
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0218492317707626
%X In reoperation for an ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm eroding through the sternum, a left ventricular vent allows careful unhurried sternal division under deep hypothermic circulatory arrest. We repaired ascending aortic pseudoaneurysms in 2 patients who had undergone aortic valve implantation 6 and 21 months earlier. A minithoracotomy was made in the left 5th intercostal space, and a vent was placed in the left ventricular apex. Repair was accomplished with a bovine pericardial patch reinforced with a Teflon felt strip. Both patients made an uneventful recovery with good functional status at discharge at the 8- and 18-month follow-up
%K Aortic pseudoaneurysm
%K Sternal erosion
%K Deep hypothermia
%K Left ventricular vent
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0218492317707626