An emboligenic pulmonary abscess leading to ischemic stroke and secondary brain abscess

BACKGROUND: Ischemic stroke by septic embolism occurs primarily in the context of infective endocarditis or in patients with a right-to-left shunt and formation of a secondary cerebral abscess is a rare event. Erosion of pulmonary veins by a pulmonary abscess can lead to transcardiac septic embolism...

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Autores principales: Albrecht, Philipp, Stettner, Mark, Husseini, Leila, Macht, Stephan, Jander, Sebastian, Mackenzie, Colin, Oesterlee, Ulrike, Slotty, Philipp, Methner, Axel, Hartung, Hans-Peter, Aktas, Orhan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23121862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-12-133

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3517440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23121862
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-12-133

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