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This is a case report of a patient who developed several unusual complications of an aortofemoral vascular graft. These were thrombosis, pseudoaneurysm, and infection. There was an Aspergillus terreus infection of the pseudoaneurysm of the vascular prosthesis. A contiguous vertebral osteomyelitis due to A. terreus subsequently developed. This represented a localized, invasive form of aspergillosis.

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Many patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension demonstrate a right-to-left shunt, caused by development of anastomoses connecting the high-pressure periesophageal veins with the low-pressure bronchial and/or pulmonary veins at the level of the pulmonary hili. These anastomoses from the pathway by which small Gelfoam particles injected into the coronary or short gastric veins may embolize the systemic arterial circulation. Such embolization could have serious consequences, but reports of such complications have not been found by the authors.