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08.01.2015 | Case Report
Surgical strategy for aortic prosthetic graft infection with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography
verfasst von:
Katsuhiro Yamanaka, Takashi Matsueda, Shunsuke Miyahara, Yoshikatsu Nomura, Toshihito Sakamoto, Naoto Morimoto, Takeshi Inoue, Masamichi Matsumori, Kenji Okada, Yutaka Okita
Erschienen in:
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Ausgabe 9/2016
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Abstract
A 30-year-old man with Marfan syndrome who underwent Crawford type II extension aneurysm repair about 9 years ago was referred to our hospital with persistent fever. Computed tomography (CT) showed air around the mid-descending aortic prosthetic graft. Because the air did not disappear in spite of intravenous antibiotics, 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) was performed. FDG-PET/CT revealed four high-uptake lesions. After dissecting the aortic graft particularly focusing on the high-uptake lesions, this patient underwent in situ graft re-replacement of descending aortic graft with a rifampicin-bonded gelatin-impregnated Dacron graft and omentopexy. The patient remains well without recurrent infection at 3 months after surgery.