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A case of an enormous false aneurysm of the right ventricular outflow tract due to infective endocarditis is reported in a 12-year old girl who underwent Rastelli repair of congenital heart disease with reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract by bovine jugular vein graft (Contegra). The false aneurysm was associated to desinsertion of the patch of the ventricular septal defect and compresses the right ventricle leading to heart failure and shock. Surgical treatment was performed in emergency but the child died after surgery. Infectious false aneurysm of the right ventricle after surgical reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract is very rare. At our knowledge, only three cases have been reported in the literature. We report here another case., (Copyright 2009. Published by Elsevier SAS.)

Introduction: Tuberculous aortic aneurysms are rarely seen. Their major complication is unforeseeable and lethal aneurysmal rupture. We report an exceptional case of multiple tuberculous aortic aneurysms in a child., Case Report: A 13-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital with abdominal pain. She reported a history of fever, night sweats and weight loss. Physical examination showed a pulsatile mass over the umbilicus. Thoracoabdominal angio-NMR revealed multiple pseudoaneurysms of the thoracic and abdominal aorta. The patient underwent elective laparotomy, resection of the abdominal aortic and in situ prosthetic repair with an aortic graft. The postoperative recovery was uneventful. The histopathologic examination of the aortic wall and para-aortic lymph nodes showed evident features of tuberculosis. Antituberculous chemotherapy was initiated., Conclusion: Tuberculous aortic aneurysms are rarely seen. Their major complication is rupture. Surgery must not be delayed just like antitubercular therapy.

Arterio-ureteral fistula is a rare condition difficult to diagnose. The usual presentation associates acute paroxysmal hematuria with well-identified history and risk factors. We report the case of an 84-year-old man with a life-threatening complication of an ilio-ureteral fistula complicating an anastomotic iliac pseudoaneurysm after prothetic iliofemoral surgery, due to a fungic infection by Candida. After reporting the clinical case and the emergency surgical treatment, we present a review of the literature.

Introduction: Aortic aneurysms are a well known but rare complication of tuberculosis. Their major complication is aneurysmal rupture, unforeseeable and lethal., Exegesis: Chest pain and hemoptoic expectoration revealed a false aneurysm of the aortic isthmus in a 48-year-old man. Endovascular repair with a stent graft was urgently undertaken. Tuberculosis was diagnosed 6 weeks thereafter by the growth of gastric juice cultures and medically treated. Most tuberculous aortic aneurysms are false aneurysms, caused by an adjacent tuberculous focus eroding the aortic wall. They present with pain, bleeding or as para-aortic masses., Conclusion: Tuberculous false aneurysms of the aorta necessitate an early intervention before they rupture. Surgical treatment remains the preferred option but endovascular repair with a stent graft is a therapeutic alternative, to be considered in high-risk surgical patients.

The aortic rupture in the pulmonary parenchyma or the bronchi rarely results in an haemoptysis. It means in most of the cases the rupture of an aortica aneurysm. We relate the observation of a aorto-bronchial fistula from a tuberculosa origin in an old woman case. Although the tuberculosa aortitis is becoming very exceptional, it still remains the cause of aorta rupture, with the formation of a false aneurysm which is rapidly fatal and so, it is important to search for it before any capricious haemoptysis.