Salmonella Arteritis — Preoperative Diagnosis and Cure ofSalmonella typhimuriumAortic Aneurysm

Abstract

ALL reported cases of salmonella aortitis and aneurysm have with one exception ended fatally despite antibiotic or surgical therapy.¹ The diagnosis of aortic aneurysm had been made or suspected in many of these, but in only one was a preoperative diagnosis of suppurative aortitis established by angiography.² The only survivors besides the one described below had peripheral and hence readily accessible arterial infection.³ This report, presented after a follow-up period of two and a half years, concerns the preoperative localization and successful treatment of an aortic aneurysm caused by Salmonella typhimurium. The important features of this unique infection are presented, . . .