Abdominal mycotic aneurysm and cerebral embolic event associated with infective endocarditis in a patient with chronic rheumatic valvar disease

Bernadete Lourdes Liphaus; Cláudia Goldenstein-Schainberg; Letícia Monteiro Kitamura; Clóvis Artur Almeida Silva

doi:10.1590/s0066-782x2007000100023

Abdominal mycotic aneurysm and cerebral embolic event associated with infective endocarditis in a patient with chronic rheumatic valvar disease

Arq Bras Cardiol. 2007 Jan;88(1):e7-9. doi: 10.1590/s0066-782x2007000100023.

[Article in English, Portuguese]

Authors

Bernadete Lourdes Liphaus¹, Cláudia Goldenstein-Schainberg, Letícia Monteiro Kitamura, Clóvis Artur Almeida Silva

Affiliation

¹ Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. [email protected]

PMID: 17364110
DOI: 10.1590/s0066-782x2007000100023

Abstract

We report the case of a girl with chronic rheumatic valvar heart disease who developed infective endocarditis and two complications, ischemic stroke due to cerebral embolic event and mycotic aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aneurysm, Infected / etiology*
Aneurysm, Infected / microbiology
Child
Chronic Disease
Echocardiography / methods
Endocarditis, Bacterial / complications
Endocarditis, Bacterial / microbiology*
Female
Humans
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / diagnosis
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / etiology
Mesenteric Artery, Superior*
Rheumatic Heart Disease / complications*
Streptococcal Infections / complications*
Viridans Streptococci