Aneurisma micótico de arteria axilar

lntroduction. Mycotic axillary artery aneurysm is rare and usually follows arterial trauma or intravenous drug abuse. Most of the reports are from the pre-antibiotic era when these cases were generally caused by bacterial endocarditis and were usually fatal. Case report. A 44 year-old female with mitral valve bacterial endocarditis presented with axillary artery mycotic aneurysm. Patient received an aneurismal resection and a subclavian-brachial bypass with safenolls vein, Conclusion. Resection of the aneurysm, bypass with vein and antibiotic therapy is the treatment of choice of this rare disease. [ANGIOLOGĺA 2009; 61: 225-8]