Study of the Aortic and Large Arterial Vessel Infections

Inclusion Criteria

• •Age ≥ 18 years
• •Aortic or large arterial vessel infection. The diagnosis is made on a number of criteria in favour of the diagnosis (at least 2 of the following 3 criteria):
• •* Compatible clinical presentation: local or general inflammatory signs suggestive of a deep infection (fever, chills, scar discharge, fistula, febrile abdominal pain and low back pain, ...) or per-operative finding of an infection in contact with native or prosthetic vascular tissue
• •* And/or biological (inflammatory syndrome) and/or imaging evidence (infectious sign on native, bioprosthetic or prosthetic vascular tissue on CT and/or PET scan) in favour of the diagnosis
• •* And/or microbiological evidence (positive serologies, blood cultures or deep samples in favour of infection)