Case report: Legionella infected thoracic aortic graft

✍ Scribed by Richard Tello; Thomas Hill; George Hartnell; Philip Costello; Ken Stokes

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 798 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-6111
• DOI: 10.1016/0895-6111(93)90076-y

✦ Synopsis

A case of a thoracic aortic graft in a patient with Marfan's syndrome infected with legionella is presented. The pathogenesis of graft infection and aspects of examination with aortography, gallium scanning, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and spiral volumetric computed tomography (CT) are presented, and the pathophysiology and management of thoracic aortic graft infections is briefly discussed.