Less than 3 % of abdominal aortic aneurysms are mycotic aneurysms.
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Mycotic aneurysms account for 2.6 % of aortic aneurysms.
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A mycotic aneurysm is an aneurysm that results from an infectious process that involves the arterial wall.
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A mycotic aneurysm can result in sepsis, or life-threatening bleeding if the aneurysm ruptures.
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However, mycotic aneurysm is still used for all extracardiac or intracardiac aneurysms caused by infections, except for syphilitic aortitis.
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A person with a mycotic aneurysm has a bacterial infection in the wall of an artery, resulting in the formation of an aneurysm.
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William Osler first used the term " mycotic aneurysm " in 1885 to describe a mushroom-shaped aneurysm in a patient with subacute bacterial endocarditis.
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Intracranial mycotic aneurysms ( ICMAs ) complicate about 2 % to 3 % of infective endocarditis ( IE ) cases, although as many as 15 % to 29 % of patients with IE have neurologic symptoms.
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Http : / / www . medscape . com / viewarticle / 410168 According to some authors, a more accurate term might have been endovascular infection or infective vasculitis, because mycotic aneurysms are not due to a fungal organism.
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