Aortic dissection can occur in pregnancy or during the postpartum period without pre-existing disease and it is a rare but potentially life-threatening event. Herein, we present a young woman without Marfan’s syndrome who developed a postpartum ascending aortic dissection 5 days after cesarean section.

1How to cite / Atıf için: Yalçın M, Katırcıoğlu EG, Yazman S, Tayfur K, Ürkmez M. Troponin I levels before bypass surgery after acute myocardial infarction; When to operate? J Surg Med. 2018;2(3):228-232. Troponin I levels before bypass surgery P a g e / S a y f a | 229

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Aims:To report the effect of prophylactic usage of levosimendan in patients with low left ventricular ejection fraction undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Methods: We reported early results of 32 patients (26 male and 6 female; mean age 61.630 ± 9.653 years) who received preoperative levosimendan who underwent CABG with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of 35% or less between March 2014 and August 2016.