Cardiac calciphylaxis presenting as endocarditis.

Inter-Operative Time between Neurosurgery and Cardiac Surgery for Native Valve Endocarditis

Introduction: Infective endocarditis is well known to produce neurologic complications from septic emboli, which mandates a multidisciplinary approach between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. However, literature is not clear as to the optimal interval length between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery.Presentation of Cases: The first case involves a 60-year-old woman with significant past medical...

Severe systemic calciphylaxis with culture-negative endocarditis

A 62-year-old male patient presented to the hospital with sustained fever and refractory skin ulcers. He had been under haemodialysis for 11 years and had received anticoagulation therapy via warfarin following the artificial valve replacement surgery for 4 years. From his painful skin ulcers and necrotizing skin nodules with surrounding purpura over a wide range of the inferior limb, perineum,...

Serratia Marcescens, An Opportunistic Gram Negative Infection In Cardiac Valve Surgery

  Serratia marcescens (S.M) is a species of gram–negative bacteria in the family enterobacteriaceae. A human pathogen, S. marcescens is involved in nosocomial infections, particularly in urinary tract and wound infections. This report describes a 63 years-old man that referred to hospital with dyspnea FC IV and he underwent cardiac valves replacement surgery with a diagnosis...

Calciphylaxis Presenting with Various Symptoms: A Case Report

Calciphylaxis causes ischemia in multiple organs and skin ulcers owing to progressive calcification in small and medial arteries. It has a poor prognosis and often occurs in patients with hyperparathyroidism associated with end-stage renal failure and those undergoing hemodialysis. Here, we present a case of calciphylaxis associated with a wide range of symptoms, including lower thigh skin ulce...

Two patients with cardiac myxoma--one presenting as bacterial endocarditis, and one as congestive cardiac failure.