Streptococcal Mycotic Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Rupture in an Asplenic Patient

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This study concerns a 69-year-old asplenic man who presented with abdominal pain and was found to have a contained rupture of a true infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm. Isolates of debrided aortic wall and swab cultures identified β-haemolytic Streptococci group A, a bacterium which typically causes pharyngeal and skin infections and may also initiate invasive infection associated with multi-organ failure. Following prompt surgical and antibiotic treatment, our patient was alive and well six weeks following surgery.