INFECTIVE PURPURA.

Infective Stroke

A surgical case of mitral regurgitation due to active infective endocarditis with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura.

A 71-year-old woman with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), who had been treated with steroid and cyclosporine, was admitted in an emergency with fever and dyspnea. The diagnosis was mitral regurgitation due ton infective endocarditis. Although she received treatments for infection and cardiac failure, the cardiac failure could not be controlled. After high-dose γ-globulin therapy, an e...

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS IN CHILDREN

A total of 14 cases of infective endocarditis (IE) in children aged 6 months to 10 years were seen from December 1987 to December 1992 at the pediatric unit of Ayatollah Taleghani Medical Center. The majority of patients (12 of 14) were between 5 and 10 years of age. Acyanotic congenital heart disease was known to preexist in 78.6% and rheumatic valvular heart disease in 21.4% of cases. Or...

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS IN CHILDREN OF SOUTHERN IRAN

Infective endocarditis is an uncommon heart disease with a variable incidence, mostly related to the ever-increasing development of cardiac surgery and the longer survival of patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Thirty-seven episodes of infective endocarditis (IE) were evaluated in 36 children (under 15 years of age) admitted to hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical ...

Henoch-Schönlein purpura secondary to infective endocarditis in a patient with pulmonary valve stenosis and a ventricular septal defect

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