European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on January 28, 2009
European Heart Journal 2009 30(9):1079; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn617
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Mycotic aneurysm of the ascending aorta: an unusual infectious complication of left ventricular assist device explantation
1 CHU Gabriel Montpied, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, 58 Rue Montalembert, 63003 Clermont Ferrand BP 69, France
2 Department of Radiology B, CHU Gabriel Montpied, Clermont Ferrand, France
Received 26 November 2008; accepted 22 December 2008; online publish-ahead-of-print 28 January 2009.
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A 57-year-old patient was hospitalized due to recurrent Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis. One year before, he underwent implantation of Heart-Mate II LVAD (Thoratec) for refractory