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Transesophageal echocardiography-guided closed aortic plication for intraoperative aortic dissection

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A 71-year-old female who developed introperative aortic dissection after coronary artery bypass grafting underwent a successful closed aortic plication with obliteration of the intimal tear under image guided transesophageal echocardiography.

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  1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2500 Metro Health Drive, 3rd Floor Hamann Building, 44109-1998, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Hironori Izutani MD & Inderjit S. Gill FRCS (C)

  2. Division of Cardiology, Metro Health Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Robert S. Finkelhor MD

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Izutani, H., Gill, I.S. & Finkelhor, R.S. Transesophageal echocardiography-guided closed aortic plication for intraoperative aortic dissection. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 51, 531–533 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-003-0117-1

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