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Assessing Bacterial Invasion of Cardiac Cells in Culture and Heart Colonization in Infected Mice Using Listeria monocytogenes
Published on: May 27, 2015
Very Late Aortic Endograft Infection With Listeria monocytogenes in an Elderly Man
Jorge A Miranda1, Ahmed Khouqeer1, James J Livesay1,2
1Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Baylor-St. Luke's Hospital, Houston, Texas.
Abstract:
Endograft infection with Listeria monocytogenes is a rare, potentially devastating complication of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair. To our knowledge, only 8 cases have been reported. We describe the case of a 72-year-old man who presented with L. monocytogenes endograft infection and a 19-cm degenerative aneurysm 9 years after having undergone endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. The infection was successfully treated with open surgical excision of the infected aortoiliac endograft and its replacement with a rifampin-soaked, bifurcated Dacron graft.
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