REDO-BENTALL OPERATION – ITERATIVE AORTIC ROOT RECOSTRUCTION – THERAPEUTIC DECISION-MAKING COMPLEXITY AND PROCEDURAL COMPLEXITY

Abstract

We present the case of a 59-year-old woman who undergoes surgery 12 years after the Bentall-de Bono operation (replacement of the aortic valve and ascending aorta with valvular duct and direct reimplantation of the coronaryan ostia in the duct). For the acute aortic dissection of type I De Bakey (Stanford type A), diagnosed with subacute infectious endocarditis at the level of the aortic valvular duct with abscess in the aortic root.