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CC BY 4.0 · Aorta (Stamford) 2020; 08(06): 181-183
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1715467
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An Unusual Cause of Sepsis: Infected Iliofemoral Junction False Aneurysm following Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Bruno Pelissier
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sorbonne Université, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
,
Guillaume Lebreton
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sorbonne Université, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
,
Pascal Leprince
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sorbonne Université, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
,
Pierre Demondion
1   Department of Cardiac Surgery, Sorbonne Université, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
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Abstract

The article presents an unusual cause of sepsis happening several weeks after heart transplant (infected iliofemoral junction false aneurysm) requiring iliofemoral reconstruction with arterial homograft by both retroperitoneal and inguinal approaches combined with Sartorius myoplasty.

Keywords

infected femoral artery false aneurysm - ECMO - heart transplantation - cryopreserved arterial homograft


Publication History

Received: 18 November 2019

Accepted: 20 June 2020

Article published online:
24 March 2021

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