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  • Title: Cardiac ochronosis: not so benign.
    Author: Wauthy P, Seghers V, Mathonet P, Deuvaert FE.
    Journal: Eur J Cardiothorac Surg; 2009 Apr; 35(4):732-3. PubMed ID: 19211256.
    Abstract:
    A 78-year-old patient with ochronosis has developed symptomatic aortic stenosis. He has undergone an aortic valve replacement that was highly complicated by a severe aortic calcification. The right coronary artery was sacrificed and bypassed in order to control a massive aortic root haemorrhage. The patient has presented a sternal dehiscence that required surgical revision. The sternal frailty was related to chronic corticotherapy in a patient with chronic spondylarthrosis. Cardiac ochronosis in the elderly may be associated to surgical complications related to severe aortic root calcifications and chronic corticotherapy for arthropathies.
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