Rasmussen aneurysm in a patient from the Ukraine: A diagnostic challenge

M Jaspard; F Le Pimpec-Barthes; E Caumes

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101732

Rasmussen aneurysm in a patient from the Ukraine: A diagnostic challenge

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 Jul-Aug:36:101732. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101732. Epub 2020 Apr 29.

Authors

M Jaspard¹, F Le Pimpec-Barthes², E Caumes³

Affiliations

¹ Infectious disease department, Hopital Pitié Salpétrière, 47-83 boulevard de l'hopital, Cedex 13, 75651, Paris, France. Electronic address: marie.jaspard@coral.alima.ngo.
² Thoracic surgery department, Hopital Européen Georges Pompidou, 20 rue Leblanc, 75015, Paris, France. Electronic address: francoise.lepimpec-barthes@aphp.fr.
³ Infectious disease department, Hopital Pitié Salpétrière, 47-83 boulevard de l'hopital, Cedex 13, 75651, Paris, France. Electronic address: eric.caumes@aphp.fr.

PMID: 32360421
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2020.101732

Abstract

A patient diagnosed with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis presented with a massive haemoptysis linked to a Rasmussen aneurysm. Failure to occlude the feeding artery via coil embolization was successfully managed with lung surgery.

Keywords: Aneurysm; Multi drug resistance; Tuberculosis.

MeSH terms

Aneurysm* / therapy
Embolization, Therapeutic*
Hemoptysis / therapy
Humans
Pulmonary Artery
Ukraine