Successful Conservative Treatment of a Large Infected Saphenous Graft Aneurysm: Usefulness of PET/CT

We report a case of a 75-year-old man with a medical history of coronary artery bypass graft surgery and a recent graft angioplasty, who presented to our emergency department with fever. An 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography demonstrated a saphenous graft infected aneurysm, which wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Real, Carlos, Ramos, Noemí, Fernández-Vega, Ana, Vivas, David, Ortega-Candil, Aida, Nava-Muñoz, Ángel, Hernández-Mateo, Paula, Rodríguez-Rey, Cristina, Juez, Almudena, Vilacosta, Isidre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8301699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34317344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.03.014
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Sumario:We report a case of a 75-year-old man with a medical history of coronary artery bypass graft surgery and a recent graft angioplasty, who presented to our emergency department with fever. An 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography demonstrated a saphenous graft infected aneurysm, which was successfully treated conservatively with antibiotic therapy. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

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