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Mycotic aneurysm of the aortic arch
1Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Grandada, Spain. ldicar@hvn.sas.cica.es
Infection
|August 29, 2000
Abstract:
A 61-year-old diabetic woman presented with a mycotic aneurysm of the aortic arch, also involving the left subclavian and vertebral arteries, caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Two months before, she had suffered from staphylococcal septic arthritis in her left knee. The patient was treated with antibiotics and an emergency operation was performed involving aneurysm excision and in situ synthetic graft replacement. She died on the fourth postoperative day from hemorrhagic shock.