Mycotic aortic aneurysms are an aggressive form of degenerative remodeling reported more commonly in immunosuppressed patients. These aneurysms carry a high risk of progression to rupture, fulminant sepsis, and death, and therefore require prompt operative intervention. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has also been associated with a broad spectrum of vascular disease, including developme...

A 52-year-old woman with a 3-week history of fever and cough was diagnosed as having bacterial endocarditis with vegetation and severe mitral valve insufficiency by echocardiography. Blood culture revealed Streptococcus mitis. After antibiotic treatment for 3 weeks, the patient noticed swelling with pain in her left groin. Computed tomography revealed an occluded aneurysm in the left common fem...

Mycotic aneurysms are rare inflammatory neurovascular lesions. Ruptured mycotic aneurysm manifesting as subdural hematoma is extremely rare. A 72-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with headache and drowsiness. Computer tomography (CT) of brain and CT angiography revealed subdural hematoma and an aneurysm located at the M4 segment of the left middle cerebral artery (MCA). Cerebr...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Mycotic aneurysms are rarely listed among the possible complications of osteomyelitis of the long bones. To the best of our knowledge this is the first case of chronic osteomyelitis associated with a pathological fracture of the femur and a mycotic aneurysm of the femoral artery. CASE PRESENTATION We present the case of a 13-year-old Ugandan boy who was referred to ...

regarding the increasing numbers of iv drug addicts, the incidence of infected pseudoaneurysm is increasing. so far, different therapeutic strategies have been tried, but each method has its own drawbacks. therefore, discovering an appropriate therapeutic method is necessary. 65 patients with infected pseudoaneurysm due to drug injection referred to shohada medical center from feb 1994 till oct...

The incidence of mycotic infections in the CNS has increased even outside those groups of patients with increased risk (AIDS, drug-addicts, etc.). These cases are secondary complications of other basic diseases favored by the influence of modern drug treatment and misinterpretation of modern diagnostic findings (radiology). A more frequent control of mycotic infections even in routine controls ...

Mycotic hepatic artery aneurysm is a vascular pathology associated with bacterial endocarditis. It is rare in occurrence after the introduction of effective antibiotics. We present a young patient with injection drug abuse associated staphylococcal endocarditis which was successfully treated with antibiotics and valve replacement who presented with abdominal pain. He was found to have mycotic a...

Objective There is striking paucity in consensus on the terminology, definition, and diagnostic criteria of mycotic aortic aneurysms. This literature study aims to elucidate this scientific omission, discuss its consequences, and present a proposition for reporting items on this disease. Methods A systematic literature review on PubMed and Medline using mycotic and infected aortic aneurysms b...

Varicella zoster (VZ) is an unusual cause of CNS angiitis, usually occurring in older patients and immunocompromised hosts. The infection most commonly presents as herpes zoster ophthalmicus with contralateral hemiplegia. Mycotic aneurysm formation associated with VZ angiitis is rare. We report two cases of VZ angiitis with mycotic aneurysm formation (both aneurysms eventually ruptured) and one...

Mycotic aneurysm of the descending aorta is usually described as rare. We present two recent cases of mycotic aneurysm of the descending aorta complicated with hemoptysis. Urgent tube graft replacements were successfully performed under cardiopulmonary bypass support. Bacterial causes of the aneurysms were methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the first case and Staphylococcus aureus i...