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Volume 24, Number 9—September 2018
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Aortic Endograft Infection with Mycobacterium chimaera and Granulicatella adiacens, Switzerland, 2014

Andreas PlateComments to Author , Thomas A. Kohl, Peter M. Keller, Sabine Majer, Rosamaria Fulchini, Carol Strahm, Cristoforo Medugno, Zoran Rancic, Lars Husmann, Hugo Sax, Stefan Niemann, and Barbara Hasse
Author affiliations: University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (A. Plate, Z. Rancic, L. Husmann, H. Sax, B. Hasse); Research Center Borstel–Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany (T.A. Kohl, S. Niemann); German Center for Infection Research, Borstel (T.A. Kohl, S. Niemann); National Center for Mycobacteria, University of Zurich, Zurich (P.M. Keller); Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich, Zurich (P.M. Keller); Cantonal Hospital Münsterlingen, Münsterlingen, Switzerland (S. Majer); Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (R. Fulchini, C. Strahm); Cantonal Hospital Frauenfeld, Frauenfeld, Switzerland (C. Medugno)

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Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative images in the case of a patient who received an abdominal aortic endograft and was later diagnosed with Mycobacterium chimaera and Granulicatella adiacens infection, Switzerland, 2014. A) 18Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography scan at diagnosis indicating a strong, metabolically active (maximum standard uptake value 9.7) aortic endograft infection and an adjacent abscess formation in the iliopsoas in close contact to

Figure 1. Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative images in the case of a patient who received an abdominal aortic endograft and was later diagnosed with Mycobacterium chimaera and Granulicatella adiacens infection, Switzerland, 2014. A) 18Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography–computed tomography scan at diagnosis indicating a strong, metabolically active (maximum standard uptake value 9.7) aortic endograft infection and an adjacent abscess formation in the iliopsoas in close contact with the left common iliac artery. B) Intraoperative extra-anatomic position of a polytetrafluoroethylene graft through noninfected subcutaneous operative field. C) Satisfactory postoperative result of the axillo-bifemoral bypass on volume-rendered reconstructions of a contrast-enhanced computed tomography.

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