A Giant Pseudoaneurysm of the Forearm as Unusual Complication of Bacterial Endocarditis

A 59-year-old man with fever was diagnosed with endocarditis due to Streptococcus bovis. Two weeks after antibiotic therapy was started, he presented with red and painful swelling of the forearm without any sign of systemic inflammation. A giant hematoma connected to the radial artery was detected w...

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Autores principales: Arcopinto, Michele, Russo, Teresa, Ruvolo, Antonio, Cittadini, Antonio, Saccà, Luigi, Napoli, Raffaele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3794644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24191229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/549529
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author Arcopinto, Michele
Russo, Teresa
Ruvolo, Antonio
Cittadini, Antonio
Saccà, Luigi
Napoli, Raffaele
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Russo, Teresa
Ruvolo, Antonio
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description A 59-year-old man with fever was diagnosed with endocarditis due to Streptococcus bovis. Two weeks after antibiotic therapy was started, he presented with red and painful swelling of the forearm without any sign of systemic inflammation. A giant hematoma connected to the radial artery was detected with ultrasound. Surgical intervention with the removal of multiple, sterile clots from the hematoma was performed, and the multiple lacerations of the artery detected were corrected. This is the first case reporting rupture of the radial artery as a complication of infective endocarditis.
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spelling pubmed-37946442013-11-04 A Giant Pseudoaneurysm of the Forearm as Unusual Complication of Bacterial Endocarditis Arcopinto, Michele Russo, Teresa Ruvolo, Antonio Cittadini, Antonio Saccà, Luigi Napoli, Raffaele Case Rep Vasc Med Case Report A 59-year-old man with fever was diagnosed with endocarditis due to Streptococcus bovis. Two weeks after antibiotic therapy was started, he presented with red and painful swelling of the forearm without any sign of systemic inflammation. A giant hematoma connected to the radial artery was detected with ultrasound. Surgical intervention with the removal of multiple, sterile clots from the hematoma was performed, and the multiple lacerations of the artery detected were corrected. This is the first case reporting rupture of the radial artery as a complication of infective endocarditis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-09-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3794644/ /pubmed/24191229 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/549529 Text en Copyright © 2013 Michele Arcopinto 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.
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Napoli, Raffaele
A Giant Pseudoaneurysm of the Forearm as Unusual Complication of Bacterial Endocarditis
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title_short A Giant Pseudoaneurysm of the Forearm as Unusual Complication of Bacterial Endocarditis
title_sort giant pseudoaneurysm of the forearm as unusual complication of bacterial endocarditis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3794644/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24191229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/549529
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