European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on August 3, 2006
European Heart Journal 2007 28(2):153; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl178
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Contained aortic rupture secondary to post-surgery mediastinitis due to Aspergillus fumigatus
1 Department of Cardiology, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Av. Manuel Siurot s.n., Seville 41013, Spain
2 Department of Cardiology, San Juan de Dios del Aljarafe Hospital, Av. San Juan de Dios s.n., Bormujos 41930 (Seville), Spain
3 Department of Pathological Anatomy, Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Av. Manuel Siurot s.n., Seville 41013, Spain
* Corresponding author: Tel: +34 653830847; fax: +34 954272333. E-mail address: jaimenevado@hotmail.com
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Male, aged 74, with chronic respiratory disease and degenerative aortic stenosis, operated 45 days ago to replace the valve with a biological prosthetic valve. The patient came