Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis

Infectious thoracic aortitis is a rare entity in the antibiotic era and usually appears in patients with prior aortic disease and/or associated infective endocarditis. Infected nonaneurysmal aorta will likely progress to mycotic aneurysm if left untreated. In most of the reports, infectious thoracic...

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Autores principales: Lopes, Ricardo, Almeida, Jorge, Dias, Paula, Pinho, Paulo, Maciel, Maria Júlia
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182636
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2009/769694
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author Lopes, Ricardo
Almeida, Jorge
Dias, Paula
Pinho, Paulo
Maciel, Maria Júlia
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Almeida, Jorge
Dias, Paula
Pinho, Paulo
Maciel, Maria Júlia
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description Infectious thoracic aortitis is a rare entity in the antibiotic era and usually appears in patients with prior aortic disease and/or associated infective endocarditis. Infected nonaneurysmal aorta will likely progress to mycotic aneurysm if left untreated. In most of the reports, infectious thoracic aortitis presents with a mycotic aneurysm. We report the case of a patient with a nonaneurysmal infectious thoracic aortitis, probably secondary to purulent meningitis, early diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiogram.
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spelling pubmed-28257692010-02-24 Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis Lopes, Ricardo Almeida, Jorge Dias, Paula Pinho, Paulo Maciel, Maria Júlia Cardiol Res Pract Case Report Infectious thoracic aortitis is a rare entity in the antibiotic era and usually appears in patients with prior aortic disease and/or associated infective endocarditis. Infected nonaneurysmal aorta will likely progress to mycotic aneurysm if left untreated. In most of the reports, infectious thoracic aortitis presents with a mycotic aneurysm. We report the case of a patient with a nonaneurysmal infectious thoracic aortitis, probably secondary to purulent meningitis, early diagnosed by transesophageal echocardiogram. SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2009 2010-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2825769/ /pubmed/20182636 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2009/769694 Text en Copyright © 2009 Ricardo Lopes et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Lopes, Ricardo
Almeida, Jorge
Dias, Paula
Pinho, Paulo
Maciel, Maria Júlia
Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis
title Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis
title_full Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis
title_fullStr Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis
title_full_unstemmed Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis
title_short Early Diagnosis of Nonaneurysmal Infectious Thoracic Aortitis Using Transesophageal Echocardiogram in a Patient with Purulent Meningitis
title_sort early diagnosis of nonaneurysmal infectious thoracic aortitis using transesophageal echocardiogram in a patient with purulent meningitis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2825769/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20182636
http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2009/769694
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