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Enhanced computed tomography scan of a 45-year-old man, carried out in the previous hospital 1 year before the index admission for an infectious aortic pseudoaneurysm caused by an inferior vena cava filter. The scan reveals the tip of the filter limb penetrating the inferior vena cava wall and extending into the aortic wall (arrow).
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The filter could not be retrieved because the tip of the filter limb penetrated the IVC wall and extended into the aortic wall (Fig. 1).
(A) Enhanced computed tomography scan of a 45-year-old man on hospital day 2, indicating an abdominal aortic pseudoaneurysm with an inferior vena cava (IVC) abscess at the site of the IVC filter limb (arrow). (B) Enlargement of the aortic pseudoaneurysm (arrow) evident on hospital day 13.
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A full-body CT scan revealed bilateral subscapular abscesses, septic pulmonary embolism, and an abdominal aortic pseudoaneurysm with an abscess at the site of the IVC filter limb (Fig. 2A). A CT scan on hospital day 13 revealed that the aortic pseudoaneurysm was further enlarged (Fig. 2B).
Enhanced computed tomography scan of a 45-year-old man with an infectious aortic pseudoaneurysm caused by an inferior vena cava filter. The scan was carried out on hospital day 20 and shows the disappearance of the pseudoaneurysm (arrow).
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The postoperative course was uneventful, and CT revealed the disappearance of the pseudoaneurysm on the hospital day 20 (Fig. 3).