Aortic Graft Pseudoaneurysm Secondary to Fracture of Sternal Wires

AUTOR(ES)

Kao, Chiung-Lun

RESUMO

A 74-year-old man with a previously placed ascending aortic graft was admitted to our hospital with a pulsating sternal mass, 2 days after an episode of severe coughing. Six months earlier, computed tomographic scanning had shown an intact aortic graft and no sternal wire fracture, but the wires had cut through the sternum. Computed tomographic scans at the current admission showed the patient to have 2 perforations of the ascending aortic graft, which led to 2 pseudoaneurysms and a large subcutaneous hematoma. In another view, a fractured sternal wire could be seen leading to one of the pseudoaneurysms.

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