Successful Treatment of an Aortoesophageal Fistula after Open Stent Grafting of a Right Aortic Arch and a Descending Aortic Aneurysm Rupture / 日本心臓血管外科学会雑誌

A 52-year-old man suffered from rupture of a right aortic arch and a descending aortic aneurysm. The patient was treated with an open stent grafting technique, and complete revascularization was achieved. Twelve days after the operation, a computed tomographic scan revealed a fistula between the distal esophagus and the excluded aneurysm sac. Twenty-six days later, the patient was treated by an esophagectomy, a cervical esophagogastrostomy, as well as a feeding jejunostomy. The infectious parietal thrombus was partially debrided, and the aneurysm sac was filled with omentum. The patient recovered uneventfully. The patient has been followed for 18 months with no signs of infection.

A Case of Marfan's Syndrome Following Cabrol's Operation That Underwent Off-Pump Beating Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Stenosis of Anastomosis between the Left Main Coronary Artery Ostium and Small Vascular Prosthesis / 日本心臓血管外科学会雑誌

We report a case of Marfan's syndrome in a patient who, 20 months after undergoing Cabrol's operation, underwent beating coronary artery bypass grafting without the aid of cardiopulmonary bypass for ostial stenosis of the left main coronary artery after acute myocardial infarction was diagnosed. The patient was a 31-year-old woman who had undergone Cabrol's operation for annulo-aortic ectasia at 29 years of age, and whose course thereafter was uneventful. On May 26, 2000, she complained of chest pain, and was admitted to our hospital with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. On June 17 of the same year, a 90% ostial stenosis of the left main coronary artery was detected by coronary angiography. She subsequently underwent beating coronary artery bypass grafting without the aid of cardiopulmonary bypass, using left internal thoracic artery (LITA) anastomosis to the left anterior descending artery (LAD) via median sternotomy. The LAD was so much displaced laterally and pericardial adhesion was so dense on the apical aspect that good visualization of the LAD could not be obtained by the conventional percardiotomy. Therefore, the pericardium over the contemplated LAD anastomosis was resected circularly, and the LITA was anastomosed to the LAD through the pericardial opening. Postoperative angiography showed a widely patent LITA, although the stenotic lesion of the left main coronary ostium was totally occluded.