Learning Cardiology

MYCOTIC ANEURYSMS -Term coined by Osler to describe aneurysms associated with bacterial endocarditis -Emboli occludes vasa vasorum or vessel lumen causing vascular wall infection -Embolism occurs in 25-50% of patients but only 1-5% develop symptomatic mycotic aneurysms -Most commonly seen in the intracranial arteries , followed by visceral arteries and upper or lower  extremely -Typically involve bifurcation