PYOGENIC PARENCHYMATOUS AND NIDUS INFECTION AFTER EMBOLIZATION OF AN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION - AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION

Infectious complications of cerebral angiography and of therapeutic an giographic procedures are very seldom reported. The case of an infecte d embolized arteriovenous malformation (AVM) by staphylococcus aureus is reported. Abscess formation became manifest seven months after the endovascular procedures. Antibiotherapy was initially started after pu ncturing the abscess, but finally the cure of the lesion could only be obtained by radical excision of the infected and embolized AVM, as if the persisting embolization material was promoting the infection. The modalities of infection after cerebral endovascular procedures are di scussed.