INTRODUCTION: A 72-year-old male patient was admitted into our centre with large infected pseudoaneurysm (PSA) in the left groin. The patient underwent a CT angiography (CTA) that confirmed a large partly thrombosed 6.5 × 5.5 cm PSA in the left groin arising from the distal anastomosis of the aortobifemoral bypass (ABF). Furthermore, the CTA revealed 11 cm juxtarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (JAAA) from which the proximal anastomosis of the ABF was arising. METHOD: Aorto-uni-iliac stent graft Cook was placed from the right groin trough native severely stenotic right iliac arteries with proximal landing zone below the renal arteries, excluding the JAAA and the ABF. The distal landing zone was in the common iliac artery maintaining patent right internal iliac artery. Afterwards, a femoro-femoral crossover bypass from right to left was performed using a fresh arterial allograft. Postprocedurally, the hospital stay was uneventful. The left groin PSA cultures came positive for Staphylococcus epidermidis and Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum, both sensitive to vancomycin and rifampicin. RESULT: The patient underwent intravenous ATB treatment with vancomycin for two weeks, followed by four weeks of oral rifampicin. The patient was discharged on the 20th postoperative days. CONCLUSION: Hybrid repair combining aortic stent graft and extra-anatomical bypass in the treatment of infected distal parts of an aortofemoral bypass is an acceptable treatment modality.

Department of Anatomy 2nd Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague Prague Czech Republic

Department of Radiology Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine Prague Czech Republic

Transplant Surgery Department Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine Prague Czech Republic

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