Abstract
We report herein the successful surgical management of a 42-year-old patient with Turner's syndrome (TS) complicated by Stanford type B aortic dissection. The patient had a single entry in the proximal descending aorta with dissection extending from the entry point to the abdominal aorto-left iliac bifurcation. A patch plasty using felt reinforcement was performed through a left 4th intercostal space thoracotomy. Her postoperative course was uneventful and she has been well during the 3 years since her operation. There have been only nine reports of patients with TS complicated by aortic dissection for whom operations were performed; however, the details of surgical treatment have not been well documented. This paper reports the course of aortic dissection and the surgical methods employed in the treatment of our patient.
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Akimoto, N., Shimizu, T., Ishikawa, M. et al. The surgical treatment of aortic dissection in a patient with Turner's syndrome: Report of a case. Surg Today 24, 929–932 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01651013
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