Endovascular repair of a Streptococcus pneumonia-induced aortitis complicated by an iliacocaval fistula.

Purpose: To describe the successful endovascular treatment and follow-up of a patient with a Streptococcus pneumonia-induced right iliacocaval fistula.

Case Report: A 82-year-old man was diagnosed with a right iliacocaval fistula, as a result of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection of the distal aorta and proximal right common iliac artery. After antibiotic treatment, he was initially unsuccessfully treated with balloon expandable covered stents.

Endovascular repair of a ruptured type II renal artery aneurysm using an endograft.

Background: The purpose of this study was to describe a case of an endovascular exclusion of a ruptured type II renal artery aneurysm in a hemodynamically unstable patient using an endograft.

Methods And Results: A 73-year-old woman, with an extensive medical history, presented with a sudden onset of abdominal pain and hypovolemic shock. A computed tomography scan showed a massive right-sided retroperitoneal hematoma and a type II aneurysm of the right renal artery just proximal to the bifurcation.

[Abdominal pain with a microvascular cause].

A 50-year-old Caucasian man was admitted with unexplained abdominal pain. Based on CT scan results, a perforation resulting from colitis of the transverse colon was suspected. Additional colonoscopy showed ulcerative stenosis of the transverse colon.

Marjolin's ulcer in an amputation stump.

Marjolin's ulcers are uncommon malignancies arising from previously traumatized, chronically inflamed or scarred skin. They are usually squamous cell carcinomas and arise most often after burns, and they may present decades after the original insult. Metastases are observed more often than in other cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas.