2018 Volume 47 Issue 5 Pages 248-251
A 40-year-old man with a family history of Marfan syndrome was admitted to our hospital because of acute Stanford type A aortic dissection. He underwent a Bentall operation with an artificial vascular graft. Postoperative computed tomography revealed a low-density area around the graft in the ascending aorta and at the left subclavian artery cannulation site. He showed no symptoms and was discharged uneventfully. Five months after the operation, a pulsatile subdermal tumor appeared in the center of the median sternotomy. Computed tomography showed low- and high density fluid accumulation surrounding the ascending aortic graft, and this was connected with a subdermal tumor. We suspected collapse of the anastomotic site and performed an emergency operation. The fluid around the aortic graft was clear and diagnosed as perigraft seroma. To prevent recurrence, we filled the space around the aortic graft with an omental pedicle graft. After the operation, perigraft seroma did not recurr. In addition, with the disappearance of the seroma in the mediastinum, fluid accumulation at the left subclavian artery cannulation site also disappeared.
