BACKGROUND Mycotic aneurysms are a complication of infective endocarditis. Infection of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) may lead to bacteremia and fever causing complications similar to those seen in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis. Intracranial mycotic aneurysms are rare, and their presence is signaled by the development of subarachnoid hemorrhage in the setting of bacterem...

Doented 63 anos, sexo masculino, admitido por síndrome febril. Tinha uma história prévia de endocardite da válvula aórtica causada por streptococcus viridans aos 41 anos. Nesse internamento foram efectuados os diagnósticos adicionais de comunicação interventricular (CIV), estenose subaórtica e insuficiência aórtica (IA). Após curso de antibioterapia dirigida, foi submetido a cirurgia cardíaca, ...

Abbreviations: ACC, American College of Cardiology; AHA, American Heart Association; ESC, European Society of Cardiology; ICH, Intracranial haemorrhage; IE, Infective endocarditis. ∗ Corresponding author at: Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henri-Mondor University Hospital, 51, avenue de Lattre-de-Tassigny, 94100 Créteil, France. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Ternacle)...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Neurologic complications in infective endocarditis are frequent and affect patient prognosis negatively. Additionally, detection of asymptomatic lesions by MR imaging could help early management of this condition. The objective of our study was to describe MR imaging characteristics of cerebral lesions in a neurologically asymptomatic population with infective endocarditi...

BACKGROUND The United States is experiencing a rapidly increasing rate of opioid drug abuse. Intravenous use (IVDU)‐related endocarditis can lead to significant neurological complications with high morbidity and mortality. When patient care necessitates anticoagulation, the standards for radiographic screening risk intracranial hemorrhage are not clearly elucidated. METHODS We conducted retrosp...

Myocardial Abscess (MA) is a rare life threatening condition mostly occurring secondary to underlying infective endocarditis. But it can also be found secondary to septicemia with some unknown focus of sepsis in the body. Development of MA as a consequence of left ventricular aneurysm (LVA) secondary to myocardial infarction is very rare. We report the case of 56 year old male, who presented wi...

Transient salmonella bacteraemia is common in patients with gastroenteritis caused by non-typhoidal salmonella' and may result in metastatic infection. Osteomyelitis, arthritis, meningitis, and endocarditis are well recognised. Older patients with atheromatous arterial disease are susceptible to endothelial infection, which may lead to the formation of an aneurysm.2 We describe a case of salmon...

We describe a man with the Marfan syndrome and a prior ascending aortic aneurysm resection who presented with knee pain and concern of endocarditis. Transesophageal echocardiogram showed no vegetations, and computed tomography angiogram of the heart showed a possible pseudoaneurysm. Cardiac catheterization and aortogram revealed the diagnosis of an aorto-right atrial fistula, which was then ope...

A 37-year-old male with acute complicated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus mitral valve endocarditis underwent urgent valve replacement with a bileaflet prosthesis. The postoperative course was complicated with fever and heart failure. Echocardiography showed a large subannular false aneurysm of the left ventricle. Three weeks later resection and closure of the defect with a patch ma...

Four patients with infective endocarditis were examined by digital subtraction angiography immediately before operation. In three a root abscess was suspected and the remaining patient was believed to have a false aneurysm at an infected aortic cannulation site. In all the cases digital subtraction angiography showed the structure in several projections and confirmed the presence of a cavity. S...