Brain abscesses in a patient with a patent foramen ovale: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Brain abscesses arising from right-to-left cardiac shunting are very rare in adults. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 47-year-old non-hispanic white male with periodontal disease who developed several brain abscesses caused by Streptococcus intermedius. A comprehensive work...

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Autores principales: Jan, Fuad, Hafiz, Abdul Moiz, Gupta, Saurabh, Meidl, John, Allaqaband, Suhail
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-9299
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author Jan, Fuad
Hafiz, Abdul Moiz
Gupta, Saurabh
Meidl, John
Allaqaband, Suhail
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Gupta, Saurabh
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Allaqaband, Suhail
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description INTRODUCTION: Brain abscesses arising from right-to-left cardiac shunting are very rare in adults. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 47-year-old non-hispanic white male with periodontal disease who developed several brain abscesses caused by Streptococcus intermedius. A comprehensive workup revealed a patent foramen ovale with oral flora as the only plausible explanation for the brain abscesses. CONCLUSION: Based on this case and the relevant literature, we suggest an association between a silent patent foramen ovale, paradoxical microbial dissemination to the brain, and the development of brain abscesses.
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spelling pubmed-28038222010-01-10 Brain abscesses in a patient with a patent foramen ovale: a case report Jan, Fuad Hafiz, Abdul Moiz Gupta, Saurabh Meidl, John Allaqaband, Suhail J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: Brain abscesses arising from right-to-left cardiac shunting are very rare in adults. CASE PRESENTATION: We describe the case of a 47-year-old non-hispanic white male with periodontal disease who developed several brain abscesses caused by Streptococcus intermedius. A comprehensive workup revealed a patent foramen ovale with oral flora as the only plausible explanation for the brain abscesses. CONCLUSION: Based on this case and the relevant literature, we suggest an association between a silent patent foramen ovale, paradoxical microbial dissemination to the brain, and the development of brain abscesses. BioMed Central 2009-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2803822/ /pubmed/20062788 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-9299 Text en Copyright ©2009 Jan 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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Gupta, Saurabh
Meidl, John
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title_short Brain abscesses in a patient with a patent foramen ovale: a case report
title_sort brain abscesses in a patient with a patent foramen ovale: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062788
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-9299
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