When clinically apparent, infected aneurysms are often at an advanced stage of development or are associated with complications such as rupture. Nontreatment or delayed treatment of infected aneurysms has a poor outcome, due to fulminant sepsis or haemorrhage. Multi-detector computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging have replaced conventional angiography as minimally invasive technique...

Backgound Infected aneurysm (or mycotic aneurysm) is defined as an infectious disease of the wall of an artery with formation of a blind, saccular out-pouching that is contiguous with the arterial lumen. Symptoms are frequently absent or non-specific during the early stages. Once clinically presented, infected aneurysms are often at an advanced stage of development and associated with complicat...

DISCRETE, non-mycotic aortic aneurysm associated with aortic stenosis is a rare entity. Only 11'-cases have been reported in the literature, 10 associated with valvtular lesions and one with subvalvular stenosis (table 1). That this association is not mere]y a coincidence has been demonstrated in several recent papers,-i and the pathogenesis of these aneurysms has been investigated.10-15 It is ...

DISCRETE, non-mycotic aortic aneurysm associated with aortic stenosis is a rare entity. Only 11'-cases have been reported in the literature, 10 associated with valvtular lesions and one with subvalvular stenosis (table 1). That this association is not mere]y a coincidence has been demonstrated in several recent papers,-i and the pathogenesis of these aneurysms has been investigated.10-15 It is ...

We report two cases of distal cerebral aneurysms that were treated by parent artery occlusion with short Guglielmi detachable coils (GDCs). One patient had a presumed mycotic aneurysm of the distal left posterior cerebral artery, and the other had a partially clipped aneurysm of the distal right anterior inferior cerebellar artery that had hemorrhaged. Short GDCs allow controlled, accurate occl...

Tuberculous mycotic aortic aneurysm is a rare disease with a high mortality rate.(1-5) Its prevalent location is the descending thoracic aorta in the patient with disseminated tuberculosis. Most of these aneurysms have been of the pseudoaneurysm type. We report the case of a 37-year-old woman with tuberculous pseudoaneurym of the descending aorta that was initially mistaken for a lung lesion an...