Aortic root aneurysm in Takayasu arteritis syndrome: Exploration in active phase and repair in inactive phase

It is a matter of difficult decision when to operate on aortic root aneurysm due to Takayasu arteritis because Takayasu arteritis bears in itself an inflammatory character which makes a cardiac surgeon to be careful to circumvent lethal complications such as hemorrhage, pseudoaneurysm formation, valve and suture line detachment, and paravalvular leakage. We recently cased for a case of fragile and inflamed aorta of aortic root aneurysm in Takayasu arteritis in inflammatory active phase which ended in exploration, and it was radically repaired in inflammatory inactive phase six months after steroid administration. This experience prompted us to report.