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  • Title: Endovascular repair of an acute, mycotic, ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm.
    Author: Vaughan-Huxley E, Hamady MS, Metcalfe MJ, Adams B, Kashef E, Cheshire NJ, Bicknell CD.
    Journal: Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg; 2011 Apr; 41(4):488-91. PubMed ID: 21232994.
    Abstract:
    This report describes endovascular stenting of an acute mycotic ascending aortic aneurysm. An eighty-three year old lady presented nine weeks after aortic valve surgery and subsequent thyroidectomy with sternal pain secondary to a mycotic ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm. The pseudoaneurysm was visible through the unhealed sternum. Open repair was considered too high a mortality risk. Endovascular stenting was performed using two covered infrarenal proximal extension devices (GORE Excluder Aortic Extender(®), W. L. Gore & Associates, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA) deployed from a right axillary approach utilising overdrive cardiac pacing. Post procedure imaging revealed shrinkage of the pseudoaneurysm sac.
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