Successful treatment of mycotic thoracic aortic aneurysm by in situ graft replacement with omental wrapping.
Mycotic thoracic aortic aneurysm is a fatal disease. We report a case of a 67-year-old man presenting with contained rupture of a mycotic thoracic aortic aneurysm. Urgent in situ graft replacement was successfully performed with omental wrapping to prevent postoperative graft infection.
Nishimura
Yoshiharu
Y
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama City, Wakayama, Japan.
Okamura
Yoshitaka
Y
Hiramatsu
Takeshi
T
Iwahashi
Masahiro
M
Komori
Shigeru
S
D000368:Aged; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000601:surgery*; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery*; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009852:Omentum / Q000601:surgery*; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods