Ricerc@Sapienza

Postoperative thoracic aortic false aneurysm is a challenging complication of aortic surgery. We describe our surgicalapproach for an 8-cm thoracic aorta false aneurysm in a 59-year-old woman who had previously undergone aortic surgery. Surgery must be planned carefully because massive hemorrhage during resternotomy is a dreadful complication of postoperative false aneurysm surgery. We decided to start cardiopulmonary bypass before resternotomy and use a ventricular vent from the apex, an endo-vent from the pulmonary artery, and an endo-balloon with antegrade blood cardioplegia.

Revision stapes surgery is generally proposed in case of insufficient
hearing gain and inner ear complications (vertigo, sensorineural
hearing loss) after primary surgery.1 However, it is reported to be
less effective, from a functional point of view, than primary surgery.
2 As a consequence, the decision to perform revision surgery
should be properly balanced. The causes of hearing failure and
inner ear complications should be carefully evaluated preoperatively
so as to give revision surgery a higher chance of success. The aims

In this study, we evaluated if surgical treatment and iterative operations could confer a survival advantage for patients with recurrent or repeated recurrences of thymoma.