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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">97</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">1310-7488</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2683-1015</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Bulgarian Society of Cardiology</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/bgcardio.28.e96612</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Case Report</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>Cardiosurgery (кардиохирургия)</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Aortic surgery in a patient with Marfan's syndrome and pectus excavatum (shoemaker's chest)</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Todorov</surname>
            <given-names>I.</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">ivilint@gmail.com</email>
          <uri content-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6556-4304</uri>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">UMBAL “Ajibadem City Clinic Cardiovascular Center”, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>UMBAL “Ajibadem City Clinic Cardiovascular Center”</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: I. Todorov (<email xlink:type="simple">ivilint@gmail.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Plamen Panayotov</p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>03</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>28</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>136</fpage>
      <lpage>142</lpage>
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      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>21</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>I. Todorov</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Patients with Marfan syndrome often have severe life-threatening cardiovascular complications, including aortic aneurysmal dilatation or aortic dissection. Approximately two-thirds of people who have this syndrome suffer from chest wall deformities such as pectus excavatum (cobbler's chest) or pectus carinatum (bird's chest). When a patient with cobbler's chest requires aortic root surgery, the operator may face a major clinical challenge in selecting the optimal surgical access and approach. We present a case of a patient with Marfan syndrome and severe pectus excavatum who underwent aortic valve replacement, aortic root and ascending aorta reconstruction, coronary artery reimplantation (Bentall de Bono procedure ) via upper partial L-sternotomy and anterior left thoracotomy.</p>
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