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- Title
Mycotic Aortic Aneurysm Infected by Clostridium septicum -- A Case History.
- Authors
Hurley, Liam; Howe, Kenneth
- Abstract
The authors describe a sixty-seven-year-old hypertensive, diabetic man with a mycotic abdominal aortic aneurysm infected with Clostridium septicum. The patient had colonic polyps but no malignant disease. They could find only one other report of a mycotic aneurysm infected with C. septicum. In that case, as in most other cases of C. septicum bacteremia, the patient had gastrointestinal cancer. Their case suggests that treatment for a clostridial infection should be considered in patients with known gastrointestinal disease, signs and symptoms of sepsis, and abdominal pain. Conversely, patients known to have a C. septicum infection should be evaluated for gastrointestinal lesions.
- Subjects
AORTIC aneurysms; AORTIC diseases; CLOSTRIDIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL diseases; PATIENTS; INFECTION
- Publication
Angiology, 1991, Vol 42, Issue 7, p585
- ISSN
0003-3197
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/000331979104200711