A 36-year-old man was transported to our hospital with severe anterior chest and abdominal pain of sudden onset which was diagnosed as Stanford type B acute aortic dissection with visceral ischemia. Aortogram revealed occlusion of celiac, superior mesenteric and inferior mesenteric arteries with aortic dissection. At first, fenestration of the abdominal aorta above the inferior mesenteric artery was immediately carried out, but the abdominal pain continued. Therefore, bypass grafting for the superior mesenteric artery with saphenous vein was performed the next day. The patient's postoperative course was complicated with acute renal failure and paralytic ileus, which were treated medically and he was discharged in good condition.

A 62-year-old man, who had been given a diagnosis of chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), was admitted to our hospital for an operation for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Preoperative coronary angiography revealed severe triple vessel disease, and we chose to treat this first. The platelet count on his first admission was 2.1×10⁴/μl and preoperative immunoglobulin infusion was introduced for 5 days. Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB) was performed safely with platelet transfusion, and he was discharged on the 14th postoperative day. Thirty-eight days later, graft replacement of AAA was performed with preoperative immunoglobulin infusion and no platelet transfusion, and he was discharged at the 11th postoperative day. Preoperative immunoglobulin infusion therapy and selection of OPCAB were useful to prevent perioperative bleeding complications. This is the first report of staged cardiac and aortic surgery in a patient with ITP.