Mycotic extracranial carotid artery aneurysms are rare and their management varies owing to a lack of evidence assessing the outcomes. We undertook systematic literature review assess appropriate treatment mycotic aneurysms. Following PRIMSA (preferred reporting items for reviews meta-analyses) guidelines, Medline Embase databases were searched all cases between January 1970 March 2021. The sea...

Reprint requests to: Dr. Tzu-Lung Ho Department of Radiology, Kuang Tien General Hospital. No.117, Shatian Road, Shalu, Taichung 433, Taiwan, R.O.C. Infected aneurysm of the abdominal artery has been found occasionally, but being accompanied with arteriovenous fistula detected by CT angiography has rarely been reported. A preoperative clinical diagnosis of infected aneurysm and arteriovenous fi...

Infected aortic aneurysms are rare, accounting for about 0.7%e 3.4% of all aortic aneurysms.1,2 They have high morbidity and mortality because of the difficulty of making the diagnosis and rapid progress to the late stage, with fulminant sepsis and aneurysm rupture. A case of an infected aortic aneurysm with left hydronephrosis and hydroureter that was difficult to differentiate from a urinary ...

positive with Staphylococcus aureus. Because of the uncertain diagnosis, we planned computerized tomography (CT) of the chest. Computerized tomography revealed a pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta (Fig. 4). The patient underwent emergency aortic surgery. Although, intensive management and antimicrobial therapy was given, she developed multiple organ failure and died in the postoperative peri...

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 nonspecific during the early stages. Once clinically presented, infected aneurysms are often at an advanced stage of development and associated with complications such a...

We report a case of infected iliac artery aneurysm concomitant with liver abscesses caused by Fusobacterium nucleatum. A 58-year-old man developed an aneurysm of the right common iliac artery and liver abscesses. The aneurysm was resected and a femoro-femoral crossover bypass with a knitted Dacron graft was performed for impending rupture. Anaerobic cultures obtained from blood and intramural t...

We report two HIV infected patients with ruptured abdominal aneurysm by using endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) technique. A 59-year-old Thai man had a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm and a 57-year-old man had a ruptured iliac artery aneurysm. Both patients had a CD4 level below 200 μ/L indicating a low immune status at admission. They were treated by EVAR. Neither patient had any complica...