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A Case of Aortic Root Replacement with a Left Main Trunk Patch Plasty
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（Cardiovascular Center, Hokkaido Social Insurance Hospital, Sapporo, Japan, and Present address:Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hokkaido University Hospital*, Sapporo, Japan）
| Toshihito Yoshida |
Yuji Naito* |
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A 63-year-old woman with annuloaortic ectasia and severe aortic regurgitation was referred to our hospital. Preoperative coronary angiography revealed 50% stenosis of the orifice of the left main trunk. She underwent aortic root replacement, but we were unable to insert a 12-gauge cannula into the orifice of the left coronary artery because of cardioplegia. Therefore, we decided to perform patch plasty of the left main trunk by a saphenous vein patch. Her postoperative course was uneventful, and postoperative computed tomography（CT）showed good expansion of the left main trunk without any evidence of aneurysm formation.
Jpn. J. Cardiovasc. Surg. 40:177-180（2011）
Keywords：left coronary artery orifice stenosis, patch plasty, annuloaortic ectasia, aortic root replacement
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