MYCOTIC ANEURYSM OF THE ULNAR ARTERY

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Abstract
An infrequent but serious complication of subacute bacterial endocarditis is the formation of mycotic aneurysms. Before the present era of potent antibiotics subacute bacterial endocarditis alone was considered an almost universally fatal disease, and hence any complication arising from this dread illness was often viewed as only hastening the inevitable mortality. Today, however, more and more does the literature report cures of bacterial infections of the endocardium so that treatment of the complications of this disease can be attempted. Aneurysms arising from infected emboli were recognized as early as 1851, when Koch described one occurring in a man aged 22, who, while being treated for an endocarditis, died suddenly from the rupture of an aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery. It was, however, Tufnell in 1853 who is generally credited with being the first to recognize the relationship between emboli and aneurysm formation. He believed, however, that the outpouching of

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