title: Endoprosthetic treatment of a mycotic superficial femoral artery aneurysm.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the successful stent-graft exclusion of a mycotic aneurysm of the superficial femoral artery.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 78-year-old man presented with Salmonella arteritis and the formation of a mycotic false aneurysm of the superficial femoral artery. Antibiotics were administered; the aneurysm was excluded using 2 Hemobahn stent-grafts, and the surrounding hematoma was drained. One year postoperatively, there are no clinical or biochemical signs of infection. Ultrasound examination does not show any fluid around the patent stent-graft.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Stent-graft placement might be an alternative to traditional surgery in selected cases of mycotic aneurysm.
authors.affiliation: Center for Vascular Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: Joren R G
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Callaert
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fourneau
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Daenens
authors.forename: Geert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maleux
authors.forename: André
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nevelsteen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology / Q000601:surgery*; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation; D005263:Femoral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012480:Salmonella Infections / Q000601:surgery*; D015607:Stents; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed