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Case report
Infectious mid basilar artery aneurysm from Pseudomonas meningitis
  1. Wengui Yu1,2,
  2. Kim Rickert1,
  3. Bruno Flores1,
  4. Duke Samson1
  1. 1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
  2. 2Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
  1. Correspondence to Wengui Yu, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, TX 75390-8855, USA; wengui.yu{at}utsouthwestern.edu

Abstract

Pseudomonas aeruginosa meningitis is an uncommon complication of neurosurgical procedures or head trauma. Here, a case of infectious mid basilar artery aneurysm from Pseudomonas meningitis, and its angiographic remission from timely antibiotic therapy, is reported.

  • Infectious aneurysm
  • basilar artery
  • Pseudomona meningitis
  • artery
  • infection
  • complication

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnis.2011.004747

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.