Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens

We report a case of a 79-year-old man for a mycotic aortic arch aneurysm caused by Clostridium perfringens. The patient who had been hospitalized for cholangitis two months prior revisited the hospital for fever and left precordial pain. He was suspected of an infected aortic aneurysm in the distal...

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Autores principales: Oishi, Atsumi, Asai, Tohru, Kajimoto, Kan, Kamikawa, Yuki, Amano, Atsushi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8831465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35165587
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21135
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author Oishi, Atsumi
Asai, Tohru
Kajimoto, Kan
Kamikawa, Yuki
Amano, Atsushi
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description We report a case of a 79-year-old man for a mycotic aortic arch aneurysm caused by Clostridium perfringens. The patient who had been hospitalized for cholangitis two months prior revisited the hospital for fever and left precordial pain. He was suspected of an infected aortic aneurysm in the distal arch due to emphysematous changes observed. After antibiotics treatment, the emphysematous changes disappeared. However, he underwent urgent total arch replacement due to a new ulcer-like projection and enlargement of the aortic aneurysm, which were observed at that time. Clostridium-infected infectious aneurysms require not only treatment for vascular lesions but also scrutiny of complications, such as cancer.
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spelling pubmed-88314652022-02-13 Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens Oishi, Atsumi Asai, Tohru Kajimoto, Kan Kamikawa, Yuki Amano, Atsushi Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery We report a case of a 79-year-old man for a mycotic aortic arch aneurysm caused by Clostridium perfringens. The patient who had been hospitalized for cholangitis two months prior revisited the hospital for fever and left precordial pain. He was suspected of an infected aortic aneurysm in the distal arch due to emphysematous changes observed. After antibiotics treatment, the emphysematous changes disappeared. However, he underwent urgent total arch replacement due to a new ulcer-like projection and enlargement of the aortic aneurysm, which were observed at that time. Clostridium-infected infectious aneurysms require not only treatment for vascular lesions but also scrutiny of complications, such as cancer. Cureus 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8831465/ /pubmed/35165587 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21135 Text en Copyright © 2022, Oishi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens
title Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens
title_full Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens
title_fullStr Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens
title_full_unstemmed Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens
title_short Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens
title_sort mycotic aortic arch aneurysm caused by clostridium perfringens
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8831465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35165587
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.21135
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