We report the case of a 70-year-old patient who presented with fever of unknown origin. The initial diagnosis was infective endocarditis as a mitral valve vegetation was found in a transesophageal echocardiogram. Lack of response to empiric antibiotic treatment and further diagnostic work-up established the correct diagnosis of marantic endocarditis due to temporal arteritis. Treatment with ste...

There has been a recent increase in the number of studies dealing with migraine-stroke. I describe five patients in whom migraine-stroke was the clinical diagnosis but in whom the subsequent clinical events or autopsy showed a different mechanism for the cerebral infarction. Three patients had arterial dissection (one proven at autopsy), one had marantic endocarditis that had been missed on two...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cryptogenic stroke is common in patients with cancer. Autopsy studies suggest that many of these cases may be because of marantic endocarditis, which is closely linked to cancer activity. We, therefore, hypothesized that among patients with cancer and ischemic stroke, those with cryptogenic stroke would have shorter survival. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed all adul...

Neurological symptoms such as headache and blurring of vision could be a manifestation an underlying lung adenocarcinoma. The objective this case report is to unveil the possible differentials processes involved in diagnosis marantic endocarditis. A 57-year old male with brain CT revealing multiple abscesses, sterile on culture, was treated per guidelines. However, patient had recurrent complai...

Polycythemia vera is an uncommon myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by the abnormal proliferation and maturation of hematopoietic stem or progenitor cells. It also known as one BCR-ABL1 negative neoplasms, along with essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis. Incomparison to myelofibrosis, polycythemia driven JAK2 mutations, specifically JAK2V617F, activating mutation encoding a tyrosine k...