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The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the new European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE) II and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) score in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR) for aortic stenosis (AS). This study also evaluated the performance of the EuroSCORE II in high-risk patients.
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We herein report a rare case of cardiac and abdominal aortic inflammatory pseudotumors (IPTs). The pathological diagnosis was IPT, which was judged to be inoperable because of its anatomical location and the fact that the patient was a Jehovah's Witness, which precluded the administration of heterologous blood transfusions.
