Evolution of Bacterial Arteritis Into a

Over the next week, the patient became more symptomatic with increasing abdominal pain and tenderness. Despite antimicrobial treatment, the leukocytosis of over 20000 persisted. A CT scan was performed and revealed that the segment of aorta affected by the infection had become aneurysmal, dilating to 3.7 cm (Fig. 2). With clinical and radi-ographic evidence of progression, the patient was taken to the operating room on the following day for resection of the infected and aneursymal artery with superficial femoral vein reconstruction. The patient’s postoperative recovery was compli-cated by respiratory failure secondary to pneumonia and severe malnutrition. He underwent tracheostomy Case Repor