One of the most feared complications in vascular surgery is the infection of synthetic graft. It affects 2% of conventional surgery procedures and about 0.3 to 6% of endovascular procedures. We report the case of a patient treated for abdominal aortic aneurysm with both methods; after six years, this patient had the prosthesis removed because of infection. Bilateral superficial femoral vein were used as substitute with success.
Infection; prostheses and implants; aneurysm
