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A 40-year-old woman with staphylococcus aureus endocarditis of the mitral valve associated with acute pulmonary edema and renal dysfunction is presented. The patient was admitted to Hiroshima University Hospital with infective endocarditis. On the 14th day after admission, she suffered from severe
Infective endocarditis is uncommon during pregnancy. The difficulty in diagnosing infective endocarditis during pregnancy, may increase the likelihood of development of complications like a mycotic aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta. We describe a case of mycotic aneurysm in the postpartum
Aiming to know the principal anatomo-pathological findings in patients that died with a diagnosis of infective endocarditis, the clinical histories and necropsy protocols of such patients that died between 1984 and 1989 were reviewed. Twenty patients (11 male) aged 43.2 +/- 16.1 years were studied.
Prosthetic valves are being widely used in the treatment of heart valve disease. Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is one of the most catastrophic complications seen in these patients. In particular, prosthetic valve dehiscence can lead to acute decompensation, pulmonary edema, and cardiogenic
A 63-year-old man with cough and shortness of breath was diagnosed to have active infective endocarditis resulting in acute pulmonary edema with aortic regurgitation caused by a huge vegetation on the noncoronary cusp and left ventricular-right atrial (LV-RA) communication which were demonstrated by
Antiphospholipid syndrome is a systemic autoimmune syndrome with cardiac manifestations such as nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis, also known as Libman-Sacks endocarditis. A 61-year-old female with history of antiphospholipid syndrome presented in acute pulmonary edema. Echocardiography
The effect of warfarin treatment on an experimental endocarditis was studied in rabbits. Warfarin had no effect on the induction of a Streptococcus sanguis infection in catheter-induced endocardial vegetations, and the course of this infection was also unaltered. However, warfarin treatment resulted
We report a case of a 74-year-old female, with a mitral heart valve, who presented with pain and blurred vision in the right eye for 2 days. Her visual acuity was light perception (LP) in the right eye and 20/40 in the left eye. Slit lamp examination showed corneal edema and hypopyon, and a view of
Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy is an enigmatic syndrome characterized by chest pain, transient left ventricular dysfunction and specific electrocardiographic changes induced by physical or emotional stress. We describe the first case of this syndrome associated with acute mitral regurgitation due to
We report the case of a male patient with community-acquired quadruple-valve endocarditis on presumed normal native valves. This patient had originally presented elsewhere with generalized edema and malaise and had been diagnosed with suspicious endocarditis and renal dysfunction, for which he
Background
This study analyzes the myocardial force-generating capacity in infective
endocarditis (IE) using an experimental model of isolated human atrial myocardium.
In vivo, it is difficult to decide whether or not alterations in myocardial contractile behavior are due
OBJECTIVE
To emphasize the role of noninvasive diagnostic investigative methods and their importance in early detection of mycotic aneurysm related to staphylococcal endocarditis, and of monitoring therapy or identifying complications.
METHODS
Two patients with mycotic aneurysm that developed as
Ebstein's anomaly is a rare congenital heart disease that presents with apical displacement of the septal and posterior leaflets of the tricuspid valve. It has a wide spectrum of clinical presentations and has been shown to manifest itself any time from birth to adulthood. Our patient is a