[Results of surgical treatment of aortic root infection].

Aim Of The Study: To investigate preoperative status and results of surgery of patients with confirmed diagnosis of aortic root infection.

Materials And Methods: We have analyzed data of 21 patients who were operated on at the Heart Surgery Center, Vilnius University, since January 1, 1997, till December 31, 2006. All these patients underwent surgery because of aortic root infection.

[Reconstruction of descending aorta with adhesive pericardium patch: the experimental study].

Objective: Tissue adhesive is one of the recognized methods to stop bleeding from aorta. The aim of this experimental work was to use pericardium patch and long chain n-butil-2-cyanoacrilic tissue adhesive for the strengthening of descending aorta wall.

Material And Methods: Seven mongrel dogs were operated under general anesthesia and artificial ventilation support.

[Risk of second and third reoperation on prosthetic heart valves].

As the volume of heart valve replacements increases, more patients are undergoing repeated operations. There are many reasons for reoperations that include incomplete or imperfectly executed primary operation, infection on valve prostheses, valve related complications. Repeated operations have their own specific technical problems, and from them depends mortality and complications rate.