Category: mycotic aneurysm

• EIA pulldown transposition: another way to treat infected common femoral pseudoaneurysm

  A surgeon from Nepal posted a case of a ruptured common femoral pseudoaneurysm infected from IV drug abuse on LinkedIn. The comments centered around typical textbook responses which were: Ligate, debride, obturator bypass In situ bypass with femoral vein +/- sartorius flap Rifampin soaked graft or crypreserved allograft Ligate only My preferred treatment is #2, […]

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  22 Nov 2021

  bypass, complications, graft infection, mycotic aneurysm, open aneurysm surgery, peripheral aneurysm, pseudoaneurysm, skunk works, techniques

  femoral aneurysm, femoralaneurysm, infectedfemoralpseudoaneurysm

• The Hands of a Surgeon

  

  My partner, Lee Kirksey, Vice-Chair of Vascular Surgery, just got a paper on-line (link) about the curiously increasing volume of open surgical repairs we were experiencing from 2010-2014 at the Cleveland campus of the Cleveland Clinic. When I joined in 2012, my impressions at that time were mostly the paucity of straightforward EVAR cases that […]

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  29 Jul 2019

  AAA, EVAR, hybrid technique, mycotic aneurysm, ruptured AAA, skunk works, techniques, training

  EVAR versus open repair, open aortic aneurysm repair, open vascular surgery training, training

• Visceral Mycotic Aneurysm Treated with Resection and Revascularization

  Sometimes the best conduit is no conduit. The patient presented with abdominal pain and fevers which was initially diagnosed as a urinary tract infection. He is an older man with a prosthetic aortic valve and prostatic cancer who had a Foley catheter for several weeks leading up to a prostatectomy. Antibiotics relieved his abdominal pain. […]

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  23 Dec 2015

  acute mesenteric ischemia, chronic mesenteric ischemia, mesenteric aneurysm, mycotic aneurysm

  mycotic mesenteric aneurysm, superior mesenteric artery aneurysm