OBJECTIVE To review our experience of using cryopreserved allografts for in situ reconstruction in the presence of infection involving the aorta, iliac or femoral arteries. DESIGN Retrospective clinical study. METHODS From 3/2000 to 8/2003 all patients with mycotic aneurysms or secondary infection following earlier prosthetic replacement were treated with cryopreserved human allografts. For...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We conducted the present study to elucidate the pathological mechanisms leading to intracranial hemorrhage complicating infective endocarditis. METHODS Neurological, neuroradiological, and histopathological analyses were performed in 16 patients (one surgical and 15 autopsy cases), 12 men and four women 26-68 years of age, who had demonstrated central nervous system com...

Acute pulmonary oedema usually has a fatal outcome. In this clinical report, we present rare cases of pulmonary oedema that were associated with Japanese B encephalitis, lymphangitis in breast carcinoma, fat embolism due to long-bone fracture, and the rupture of cerebral mycotic aneurysms. A total of 18 patients in the four disease categories were collected in two teaching hospitals in Taipei a...

The term "mycotic aneurysm" was first used by Osler in 1882 to describe a mushroom-shaped aneurysm in subacute bacterial endocarditis. Mycotic aneurysms account for only 2.6% of all aneurysms of the aorta. Rarer still are anaerobic infections secondary to organisms such as Clostridium septicum, which results in emphysematous aortitis. The vast majority of emphysematous aortic infections occur a...

aneurysms (Figure 1a). There were no signs nor sympIntroduction toms of polyarteritis nodosa nor microscopic polyarteritis. The arterio-venous fistula was successfully treated Renal aneurysms are common in polyarteritis nodosa, by embolization. The patient received antibiotics for either idiopathic or associated with HBV or HCV 10 weeks (teicoplanin, ofloxacin and meticillin). Due infection [1]...

arteritis with aneurysm formation of the left common iliac. Extrinsic compression of the left ureter resulted in ureteral obstruction and Salmonella bacteremia secondary to pyelonephritis. An excision was performed, followed by an extra-anatomic bypass with an autologous superficial femoral vein. Salmonella septicemia after acute pyelonephritis in a patient aged over 50 years should raise the s...

BACKGROUND The burden of disease caused by Streptococcus agalactiae has increased significantly among older adults in the last decades. Group B streptococcus infection can be associated with invasive disease and severe clinical syndromes, such as meningitis and endocarditis. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 56-year-old man who developed multiple mycotic aneurysms of the right hepati...