Infected endoluminal stent-graft: implications for endotension, late endoleaks, and prophylactic antibiotics.

Purpose: To retrospectively review a case of stent-graft infection that presented as continued aneurysm expansion after endoluminal repair.

Case Report: A 75-year-old man with an asymptomatic 6.1-cm abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) was treated with a Talent stent-graft, which was complicated by postimplantation syndrome.

Once bitten, twice shy: an unusual case report of a mycotic aortic aneurysm.

Primary mycotic aneurysms of the aorta are a rare, but potentially lethal condition comprising less than 1% of all aortic aneurysms. All age groups are affected but patients younger than 50 years are most susceptible. Organisms commonly implicated in aortitis and mycotic aortic aneurysms include Salmonella species and Staphylococcus aureus(1).