Introduction
Donor and/or recipient aortic dissection following heart transplantation (HTx) was published in very small numbers of articles (1-7). As a result of the preparation of recipients, donor care,
anesthesia and surgical techniques, improvements in immunosuppressive therapy, the survival of HTx patients are increasing day by day, thus increasing the incidence of late complications (1). Incompatibility between donor and the recipient aorta may cause infection, technical errors, impaired hemodynamic flow dynamics or hypertension. In rare cases, these conditions can cause aortic aneurysm and/or dissection. Type A chronic aortic dissection can cause cerebrovascular events, malperfusion in visceral organs, aortic valve failure, cardiac ischemia or tamponade (2,3,6). The frequency of this rare complication was reported between 1-2% (5,6). In this case, we presented a 40-year old male patient with recipient aortic dissection and its surgical treatment.