title: Successful treatment of primary pneumococcal multilocular mycotic aneurysms.
abstract: We report the case of a patient with five primary pneumococcal multilocular mycotic aneurysms located in the left femoral artery, the descending thoracic aorta and the right internal iliac artery. A successful treatment combining three different procedures was performed, including the use of two cryopreserved thoracic homografts. At a 54-month follow-up, the patient is alive and leads a normal life. Regular evaluation including computed tomographic scans of the thorax and abdomen showed no recurrence of infectious aneurysmal process. Moreover, this latter examination confirmed no dilatation nor significant calcifications of the thoracic arterial allograft, though chest roentgenogram showed discrete calcifications along the borders at the 50th month.
authors.affiliation: Service de Chirurgie Thoracique et Cardio-vasculaire, Hôpital Cardiologique (CHRU-LILLE), Lille, France.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grandmougin
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Warembourg
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fayad
mesh_terms: D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005263:Femoral Artery; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000601:surgery*