Hepatic Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Staphylococcal Endocarditis with Successful Treatment: Case Report with Review of the Literature

Mycotic hepatic artery aneurysm is a vascular pathology associated with bacterial endocarditis. It is rare in occurrence after the introduction of effective antibiotics. We present a young patient with injection drug abuse associated staphylococcal endocarditis which was successfully treated with an...

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Autores principales: Chaudhari, Dhara, Saleem, Atif, Patel, Pranav, Khan, Sara, Young, Mark, LeSage, Gene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25379298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/610818
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author Chaudhari, Dhara
Saleem, Atif
Patel, Pranav
Khan, Sara
Young, Mark
LeSage, Gene
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description Mycotic hepatic artery aneurysm is a vascular pathology associated with bacterial endocarditis. It is rare in occurrence after the introduction of effective antibiotics. We present a young patient with injection drug abuse associated staphylococcal endocarditis which was successfully treated with antibiotics and valve replacement who presented with abdominal pain. He was found to have mycotic aneurysm of hepatic artery which was successfully treated with coil embolization.
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spelling pubmed-42083852014-11-06 Hepatic Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Staphylococcal Endocarditis with Successful Treatment: Case Report with Review of the Literature Chaudhari, Dhara Saleem, Atif Patel, Pranav Khan, Sara Young, Mark LeSage, Gene Case Reports Hepatol Case Report Mycotic hepatic artery aneurysm is a vascular pathology associated with bacterial endocarditis. It is rare in occurrence after the introduction of effective antibiotics. We present a young patient with injection drug abuse associated staphylococcal endocarditis which was successfully treated with antibiotics and valve replacement who presented with abdominal pain. He was found to have mycotic aneurysm of hepatic artery which was successfully treated with coil embolization. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4208385/ /pubmed/25379298 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/610818 Text en Copyright © 2013 Dhara Chaudhari et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Patel, Pranav
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Hepatic Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Staphylococcal Endocarditis with Successful Treatment: Case Report with Review of the Literature
title Hepatic Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Staphylococcal Endocarditis with Successful Treatment: Case Report with Review of the Literature
title_full Hepatic Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Staphylococcal Endocarditis with Successful Treatment: Case Report with Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Hepatic Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Staphylococcal Endocarditis with Successful Treatment: Case Report with Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Hepatic Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Staphylococcal Endocarditis with Successful Treatment: Case Report with Review of the Literature
title_short Hepatic Artery Mycotic Aneurysm Associated with Staphylococcal Endocarditis with Successful Treatment: Case Report with Review of the Literature
title_sort hepatic artery mycotic aneurysm associated with staphylococcal endocarditis with successful treatment: case report with review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25379298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/610818
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