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Diagnostic Options in Assessing Abdominal Aortic Endograft Infection

A Case Report

Department of Vascular Surgery, Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, OH; c/o Wendy Thompson, Research 11J, Good Samaritan Hospital, 375 Dixmyth Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45220 wendy_thompson{at}trihealth.com

Patrick Muck, MD

Joann Lohr, MD

Wendy Thompson, MS

Gregory C. Kasper, MD

Richard E. Welling, MD

Department of Vascular Surgery, Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

Endovascular treatment of aortic aneurysms has gained widespread popularity in recent years. Stent grafts have emerged as another option in the surgeon's armamentarium in the treatment of aneurysmal disease. The infectivity of endovascular grafts and therapy for associated graft infections is unknown. Aortic graft infections have the potential for disastrous complications. This report presents a 72-year-old woman with persistent fever and an infected aortic stent graft in the early postoperative period.

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Vol. 37, No. 5, 359-362 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/153857440303700508


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