Mycotic aneurysm after aortic bifurcation prosthesis.
Fever in the presence of an intravascular graft will focus the clinical investigation on an infection of this graft. This case report describes an uncommon cause of fever in a 75-year-old patient, namely a mycotic aneurysm of the aortic stump.
Galema
L
L
Department of Internal Medicine, Kennemer Gasthuis, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Overbosch
E H
EH
Schrander-van der Meer
A M
AM
Brom
H L
HL
Roggeveen
C
C
van Dorp
W T
WT
D000368:Aged; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D001027:Aortography; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011425:Propionibacterium acnes; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents