The term mycotic aneurysm involves an infection of secondary aneurysmal wall to bacterial endocarditis. The 63% of mycotic aneurysms of the superior mesenteric artery are due to embolism from a septic endocarditis. Although most of these aneurysms is diagnosed, due to the increase in diagnostic methods, even a quarter of the superior mesenteric artery aneurysms present with rupture, intestinal ...

Mycotic aneurysm is an established condition first identified in 1885 by Sir William Osler. It is linked to malignant endocarditis. With prevalence of 0.7-2.6% of all cases of aortic aneurysms, it is associated with a significant rate of mortality and morbidity. Physicians should be highly cautious, as diagnosis and effective treatment for this condition are difficult. The following is a case r...

Mycotic aortic aneurysms are exceedingly uncommon in infants and they have a high risk of rupture. Their surgical management is extremely challenging. We report a case of a 22-month-old girl who presented with abdominal pain and fever revealing a ruptured mycotic aneurysm of the infrarenal aorta. The surgical treatment consisted of a ligature of the proximal and distal ends of the aneurysm. Pos...

Background Mycotic aortic aneurysms are rare and life-threatening. Unfortunately, no established guidelines exist for the treatment of patients with mycotic aortic aneurysms. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the midterm outcomes of the open repair of mycotic thoracic and thoracoabdominal aneurysms and suggest a therapeutic strategy. Methods From 2006 to 2016, 19 patients underwent op...

Abstract Introduction Mycotic extracranial carotid artery aneurysms are rare and their management variable due to a lack of evidence assessing outcomes. We undertook systematic literature review assess this. Methods Following PRIMSA guidelines, MEDLINE EMBASE databases were searched for all cases between January 1970 March 2021. The search terms used infect, abscess, mycotic, carotid, aneurysm,...

SUMMARY Due to the nonspecific clinical findings and poor prognosis, early recognition is mandatory in mycotic aneurysms. After rupture, they are almost always fatal. The difficulty and importance on early diagnosis of primary mycotic aneurysm prompts the presentation of a case of mycotic aneurysm of the abdominaly aorta. The term of Mycotic Aneurysm, was introduced by the first time by Osler,'...

A 51-year-old hemodialysis patient was admitted for methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia from an unknown primary focus. A transthoracic echocardiogram showed no cardiac vegetation. 18 Ffludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET) revealed an increased uptake in the aortic arch (Picture 1, white arrow) with a maximum standard uptake value of 5.30. Both athe...

BACKGROUND Mycotic aneurysm remains a lethal pathologic entity, especially when rupture occurs. It may result from primary aortitis, be induced by septic emboli, or be secondary to an adjacent infection, such as pancreatitis or a psoas muscle abscess. Surgical intervention is the only way to treat such disease. Even when successful repair is achieved by insertion of an interposition in situ gra...

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...

A mycotic aneurysm is defined as the limited dilatation of an artery, secondary to an infection of the vascular wall. Spreading of the infection can be intravascular (bacteraemia and septic embolisms especially in infectious endocarditis) or extravascular (contiguous infectious spots, such as abscesses). The relationship between mycotic aneurysms and infectious endocarditis was described for th...