@article{barretta2014type,
  title = {Type A Chronic Aortic Dissection in 40-Years Old Smeloff-Cutter Aortic Valve},
  author = {Antonio Barretta and Antonino G. M. Marullo and Mariangela Peruzzi and Giuseppe Mazzesi and Piero Proietti and Ernesto Greco and David Rose and Ilaria Chirichilli and Chiara Santo and Giacomo Frati},
  year = 2014,
  url = {https://ibimapublishing.com/articles/IJCRM/2014/871865/},
  journal = {International Journal of Case Reports in Medicine},
  volume = 2014 (2014),
  pages = 6,
  doi = 10.5171/2014.871865,
  abstract = {We report the case of a 60-year-old man undergone an aortic valve replacement with a Smeloff-Cutter prosthesis 40 years ago. The patient underwent a redo aortic valve and ascending aorta replacement for ascending aorta aneurysm that intraoperatively appeared as a chronic Type A aortic dissection. The Smeloff-Cutter prosthesis looked intact and functionally normal. The ascending portion of the aorta appeared dissected two centimeters above the sino-tubular junction, between the non-coronary and the left coronary valsalva sinuses: we speculate that Smeloff-Cutter prosthesis may contribute, due to its rheology and features, to the determinism of aortic dilatation and subsequently dissection.},
  keywords = {Aortic dissection, chronic dissection, smeloff-cutter prosthesis.},
  note = Article ID: 871865
}