Successful Treatment with Percutaneous Catheter Drainage and Irrigation for Methycillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Graft Infection Following Abdominal Aneurysm Repair

• Published in: Japanese Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery Vol. 32; no. 6; pp. 347 - 349
• Main Authors: Taniguchi, Kenichiro, Umesue, Masayoshi, Nakamura, Kenichi, Nagano, Ichiro, Fukumura, Fumio, Boku, Noriko, Ando, Hiromi, Tanaka, Jiro, Kimura, Satoshi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: The Japanese Society for Cardiovascular Surgery 2003
• Subjects: MRSA
• ISSN: 0285-1474; 1883-4108
• DOI: 10.4326/jjcvs.32.347

We report 2 cases of successful treatment by percutaneous catheter drainage and irrigation for methycillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prosthetic graft infection after abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) repair. Case 1 was a 71-year-old man in whom MRSA graft infection was diagnosed on the basis of high fever and CT-guided taps of the perigraft fluid 11 days after AAA repair, and a percutaneous catheter was inserted into the perigraft space by the CT-guided method. Case 2 was a 77-year-old man in whom MRSA graft infection was diagnosed because of high fever and purulent discharge from the wound of retroperitoneal drainage 5 days after AAA repair. A percutaneous catheter was placed into the retroperitoneal space via an extraperitoneal route. In both cases, intermittent irrigation by 0.5% Povidone-iodine solution and saline was performed as well as systemic and local antibiotic administration. The graft infection was well controlled and both patients were discharged after 4 months. Percutaneous catheter drainage and irrigation can be one of the choices for critically ill patients with graft infection after AAA repair.