2 CASES OF MYCOBACTERIAL AORTO ANEURYSMS, FIRST CASE DUE TO MYCOBACTERIUM-XENOPI

We report two cases of mycobacterial abdominal aortic aneurisms. one o f them due to Mycobacterium xenopi. The first case occures in a 65 yea r old patient. The mycobacterial origin may be asserted by anatomo-pat hological examination and eradication by a specific treatment. The sec ond case is diagnosed in 61 year old patient, who had a sus-diaphragma tic Hodgkin's disease discovered and treated in 1978. M. xenopi has be en found in a node sample included in the aortic aneurism wall. The tw o cases are cured by resection of the aneurism and positioning of aort o-aortic prosthesis, and by isoniazid-rifampicin-pyrazinamid-ethambuto l treatment in the first case, and by ofloxacin-clarithromycin-clofazi mine treatment in the second case.