Infective endocarditis and incidental popliteal artery mycotic aneurysm
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Mycotic aneurysm of the popliteal artery due to infective endocarditis.
Mycotic aneurysm (MA) is an infrequent complication of infective endocarditis (IE), reported in 3 to 15% of the patients with IE. The commonest site for such aneurysm is intracranial vessels (65%) followed by abdominal and then the peripheral vessels. We describe a case of 32 year old man with recently diagnosed rheumatic heart disease and mitral regurgitation. He had infective endocarditis (IE...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cor et Vasa
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0010-8650,1803-7712
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvasa.2016.12.012