True bacterial mural endocarditis.

Bacterial Endocarditis and Mural Thrombi

EMBOLIC phenomena occur with such frequency in the course of bacterial endocarditis as to constitute a cardinal diagnostic feature of this disease. However, it has been noted that the resultant infarcts are less often septic than would be expected if the emboli originated from the infected valvular vegetations.' A previous study of this apparent paradox showed that it is the nonbacterial thromb...

Subacute bacterial endocarditis arising in mural thrombi following a myocardial infarction: a case report.

Giant right ventricular mural vegetation mimicking a cardiac tumour.

Mural vegetations in the course of infective endocarditis are very rare. We report the case of a patient with an extremely large right ventricular free wall vegetation. Establishing diagnosis in the presence of only mural vegetations on echocardiography scan without valve involvement in the inflammatory process was difficult. In a differential diagnosis, benign and malignant tumours, metastases...

Perioperative and short-term results of the surgical treatment of infective endocarditis

Introduction Infective endocarditis is defined as the infection of the endocardial surface of the heart, which may include one or more heart valves or the mural endocardium. It results in severe valvular insufficiency, which may lead to congestive heart failure, and myocardial abscesses. One of the most feared complications is thromboembolism, through infected emboli. The purpose of this paper ...

Infective endocarditis in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy--mural and aortic valve vegetations: a case report.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is infrequently complicated by infective endocarditis (IE). The authors report the case of a 46-year-old woman developing IE in asymptomatic HCM. Blood cultures were positive for Streptococcus viridans. Echocardiography demonstrated: 1) a mobile (1.2 x 1 cm2) vegetation attached to the septal endocardium at the site of contact between the mitral valve leaflet a...

ACUTE RHEUMATIC MYOCARDlTlS AT AGE

findings, and the invariant electrocardiograms made it impossible to establish clinically this diagnosis in the case at hand. Exudative mural endocarditis secondarv to bacterial infection. without a similar reaction in the valvular endocardium, is uncommon though Trasoff and Meranze7 mentioned this possibility in association with a Pneumococcal infection. They described a heart with a large thr...