A serviceman has undergone successful, complex open-heart surgery at the Main Clinical Hospital of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defence. He came to the hospital complaining of shortness of breath and chest pain.
Examinations found severe aortic valve insufficiency and an aneurysm accompanied by enlargement of the aortic root and ascending aorta.
The patient underwent a Bentall procedure. Surgeons replaced the aortic valve with a prosthesis and the aortic root and ascending aorta with a vascular graft. They connected the coronary arteries to the new graft.
