Endoprosthetic treatment of a mycotic superficial femoral artery aneurysm.
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.
Callaert
Joren R G
JR
Center for Vascular Diseases, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
Fourneau
Inge
I
Daenens
Kim
K
Maleux
Geert
G
Nevelsteen
André
A
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