Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài:Nonaneurysmal abdominal aortitis in an 82-year-old woman presenting with pyrexia and back pain: a case report | JOURNAL OF MEDICAL Sr CASE REPORTS Open Access Case report Nonaneurysmal abdominal aortitis in an 82-year-old woman presenting with pyrexia and back pain a case report Manoj Kumar Tariq Barakat Grace Timmons and Ahmed Mudawi Address Department of Vascular Surgery Queen Elizabeth Hospital Gateshead Tyne and Wear UK Email MK - TB - tariqbarakat@ GT - AM - Corresponding author Received 17 June 2008 Accepted 9 February 2009 Published 9 September 2009 Journal ofMedical Case Reports 2009 3 8958 doi 1752-1947-3-8958 This article is available from http jmedicalcasereports article view 8958 2009 Kumar et al. licensee Cases Network Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Infective aortitis has become uncommon since the advent of antibiotic therapy. Aortitis presenting as a localised perforation in a non-aneurysmal aorta is extremely rare. We report the case of an 82-year-old woman who was diagnosed with localised perforation of a non-aneurysmal abdominal aorta secondary to staphylococcus aortitis. Case presentation An 82-year-old woman presented with a history of a sudden onset of back pain and pyrexia. A clinical examination did not reveal any significant findings attributable to her sepsis. As her clinical condition deteriorated rapidly adequate resuscitation was commenced. Appropriate serology and radiological investigations including a computed tomography scan were performed. The computed tomography scan revealed a diagnosis of a non-aneurysmal infective abdominal aortitis with evidence of localised perforation. This was successfully treated under local anaesthetic with endovascular aortic repair and appropriate .
