aortic rupture/fever

A 65-year-old man with fever of unknown origin developed progressive extrahepatic cholestasis. Radiological examination documented a suprarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. Fatal intraabdominal bleeding occurred, leading to death. Post-mortem examination revealed an earlier retroperitoneal rupture of

We report a successful surgical treatment of an infective thoracic aortic aneurysm ruptured to the left lung. A 63-year-old man who had been suffering from fever and cough showed twice of hemoptysis. Chest CT revealed a descending thoracic aortic aneurysm ruptured to the left lung. A semiemergent

Salmonella arteritis developed in three patients with subsequent arterial rupture and pseudoaneurysm formation. They had a one- to two-week history of chills and fever, and blood cultures were positive for salmonella. Pulsatile, tender abdominal masses developed in two patients with aortic infection

A 75-year-old immunosuppressed man presented with fever and central abdominal pain 3 weeks after having positive blood cultures for Salmonella enteritidis. A computed tomography scan demonstrated a contained perforation of a nonaneurysmal abdominal aorta. Salmonella aortitis was suspected, and given

BACKGROUND Adjuvant therapy with bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis, has become the treatment of choice for low-risk superficial bladder carcinoma following transurethral resection of the bladder. Complications following vesical BCG instillations are

OBJECTIVE To investigate efficacy of stent-graft repair for the treatment of patients with chronic aortic dissection. METHODS Fifteen patients with chronic aortic dissection were treated with endovascular stent-grafts. Entry tears were located in the descending thoracic aorta in all patients. The

We present a 3-yr-old girl with coarctation of aorta and patent ductus arteriosus in whom mycotic aneurysm and bacterial endarteritis developed postoperatively and was diagnosed by two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. Five weeks after the operation of ligation of ductus and resection of

One 12 day newborn, a 2 year old infant and two children aged 10 and 14, operated for isthmic coarctation of the aorta by three different surgical techniques (resection-anastomosis, angioplasty with an autograft, prosthetic graft) suffered infection of the operative field, resulting in septicemia (3

A patient with Streptococcus pneumoniae aortitis is presented. Because of nonspecific symptoms (fever and back pain) there was a long diagnostic delay. In addition, the aortitis was located near the renal arteries which severely hampered early surgical treatment. Although emergency surgery was

Infectious aortitis (IA) is a life-threatening bacterial infection that occurs almost exclusively in adults. Only 1 case of IA had been previously reported in a child. We present a case of IA that occurred in a 6.5-year-old previously healthy girl who was seen in our emergency department because of

A 57 years old man had a two months history of chills and fever with abdominal pain. Blood cultures were positive for Salmonella ohio. He suddenly became hypotensive with oedema of lower limbs. Angiographic findings were infrarenal aortic rupture with pseudoaneurysm formation and inferior vena cava

We report on an unusual case of a 3 year-old girl with coarctation of the aorta complicated by mycotic pseudoaneurysm and infected with Streptococcus pneumoniae.

The only symptoms and signs were fever and weak femoral pulses.

OBJECTIVE The usual treatment of traumatic aortic rupture (TAR) is surgical. This invasive technique necessitating thoracotomy and ECC is associated with a mortality rate of more than 20% and a paraplegia risk of about 10%. New minimally-invasive techniques (aortic stent-grafting) are emerging as

A previously asymptomatic 69-year-old lady, who recently travelled on a 4 h flight, presented with acute left-sided pleuritic pain, dyspnoea and calf pain. Blood gases revealed hypoxaemia and D-dimer was significantly elevated. She also had low-grade fever, leukocytosis and a small left-sided