Bacteroides <it>fragilis </it>aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with review
<p>Abstract</p> <p>We present a case of 58-year-old woman with underlying diabetes mellitus, hepatitis C virus-related liver cirrhosis, and total hysterectomy for uterine myoma 11 moths ago, who was diagnosed ruptured aortic arch mycotic pseudoaneurysm after a certain period of sur...
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| author | Yang Yu-Jen Liu Kung-Hung Lee Hsin-Ling Kan Chung-Dann |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>We present a case of 58-year-old woman with underlying diabetes mellitus, hepatitis C virus-related liver cirrhosis, and total hysterectomy for uterine myoma 11 moths ago, who was diagnosed ruptured aortic arch mycotic pseudoaneurysm after a certain period of survey for her unknown fever cause. After emergent surgery with prosthetic graft interposition, all her blood cultures and tissue cultures revealed pathogen with <it>Bacteroides fragilis</it>. Although mycotic aneurysms have been well described in literatures, an aneurysm infected solely with <it>Bacteroides fragilis </it>is unusual, with only eight similar cases in the literature. Here we reported the only female case with her specific clinical and management course and summarized all reported cases of mycotic aneurysm caused by <it>Bacteroides fragilis </it>to clarify their conditions and treatments, alert the difficulty in diagnosis, and importance of highly suspicious.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e63a4bedbe1a4634b9c6bbb2bb775f852022-12-22T01:17:51ZengBMCJournal of Cardiothoracic Surgery1749-80902008-05-01312910.1186/1749-8090-3-29Bacteroides <it>fragilis </it>aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with reviewYang Yu-JenLiu Kung-HungLee Hsin-LingKan Chung-Dann<p>Abstract</p> <p>We present a case of 58-year-old woman with underlying diabetes mellitus, hepatitis C virus-related liver cirrhosis, and total hysterectomy for uterine myoma 11 moths ago, who was diagnosed ruptured aortic arch mycotic pseudoaneurysm after a certain period of survey for her unknown fever cause. After emergent surgery with prosthetic graft interposition, all her blood cultures and tissue cultures revealed pathogen with <it>Bacteroides fragilis</it>. Although mycotic aneurysms have been well described in literatures, an aneurysm infected solely with <it>Bacteroides fragilis </it>is unusual, with only eight similar cases in the literature. Here we reported the only female case with her specific clinical and management course and summarized all reported cases of mycotic aneurysm caused by <it>Bacteroides fragilis </it>to clarify their conditions and treatments, alert the difficulty in diagnosis, and importance of highly suspicious.</p>http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/3/1/29 |
| spellingShingle | Yang Yu-Jen Liu Kung-Hung Lee Hsin-Ling Kan Chung-Dann Bacteroides <it>fragilis </it>aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with review Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery |
| title | Bacteroides <it>fragilis </it>aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with review |
| title_full | Bacteroides <it>fragilis </it>aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with review |
| title_fullStr | Bacteroides <it>fragilis </it>aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with review |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bacteroides <it>fragilis </it>aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with review |
| title_short | Bacteroides <it>fragilis </it>aortic arch pseudoaneurysm: case report with review |
| title_sort | bacteroides it fragilis it aortic arch pseudoaneurysm case report with review |
| url | http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/3/1/29 |
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