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Adult brain abscess associated with patent foramen ovale: a case report

Brain abscess results from local or metastatic septic spread to the brain. The primary infectious site is often undetected, more commonly so when it is distant. Unlike pediatric congenital heart disease, minor intracardiac right-to-left shunting due to patent foramen ovale has not been appreciated a...

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Autores principales: Stathopoulos, Georgios T, Mandila, Christina G, Koukoulitsios, Georgios V, Katsarelis, Nikodimos G, Pedonomos, Michel, Karabinis, Andreas
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2018709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17718904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-68
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author Stathopoulos, Georgios T
Mandila, Christina G
Koukoulitsios, Georgios V
Katsarelis, Nikodimos G
Pedonomos, Michel
Karabinis, Andreas
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Mandila, Christina G
Koukoulitsios, Georgios V
Katsarelis, Nikodimos G
Pedonomos, Michel
Karabinis, Andreas
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description Brain abscess results from local or metastatic septic spread to the brain. The primary infectious site is often undetected, more commonly so when it is distant. Unlike pediatric congenital heart disease, minor intracardiac right-to-left shunting due to patent foramen ovale has not been appreciated as a cause of brain abscess in adults. Here we present a case of brain abscess associated with a patent foramen ovale in a 53-year old man with dental-gingival sepsis treated in the intensive care unit. Based on this case and the relevant literature we suggest a link between a silent patent foramen ovale, paradoxic pathogen dissemination to the brain, and development of brain abscess.
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spelling pubmed-20187092007-10-12 Adult brain abscess associated with patent foramen ovale: a case report Stathopoulos, Georgios T Mandila, Christina G Koukoulitsios, Georgios V Katsarelis, Nikodimos G Pedonomos, Michel Karabinis, Andreas J Med Case Reports Case Report Brain abscess results from local or metastatic septic spread to the brain. The primary infectious site is often undetected, more commonly so when it is distant. Unlike pediatric congenital heart disease, minor intracardiac right-to-left shunting due to patent foramen ovale has not been appreciated as a cause of brain abscess in adults. Here we present a case of brain abscess associated with a patent foramen ovale in a 53-year old man with dental-gingival sepsis treated in the intensive care unit. Based on this case and the relevant literature we suggest a link between a silent patent foramen ovale, paradoxic pathogen dissemination to the brain, and development of brain abscess. BioMed Central 2007-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2018709/ /pubmed/17718904 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-68 Text en Copyright © 2007 Stathopoulos et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Stathopoulos, Georgios T
Mandila, Christina G
Koukoulitsios, Georgios V
Katsarelis, Nikodimos G
Pedonomos, Michel
Karabinis, Andreas
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title_short Adult brain abscess associated with patent foramen ovale: a case report
title_sort adult brain abscess associated with patent foramen ovale: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2018709/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17718904
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