Introduction
Donor and/or recipient aortic dissection following heart transplantation
(HTx) was published in very small numbers of articles (1-7). As a result
of the preparation of recipients, donor care,
anesthesia and surgical techniques, improvements in immunosuppressive
therapy, the survival of HTx patients are increasing day by day, thus
increasing the incidence of late complications (1). Incompatibility
between donor and the recipient aorta may cause infection, technical
errors, impaired hemodynamic flow dynamics or hypertension. In rare
cases, these conditions can cause aortic aneurysm and/or dissection.
Type A chronic aortic dissection can cause cerebrovascular events,
malperfusion in visceral organs, aortic valve failure, cardiac ischemia
or tamponade (2,3,6). The frequency of this rare complication was
reported between 1-2% (5,6). In this case, we presented a 40-year old
male patient with recipient aortic dissection and its surgical
treatment.