Aortic Graft Infection as a Cause of Multiple Brain Infarcts

Brain embolism of cardiac origin is common in clinical practice. However, embolic brain infarcts due to aortic graft infection are very rare. We present a case of a 53-year-old woman with multiple brain infarcts, following an infection of ascending aortic graft. She was presented with fever and acut...

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Autores principales: Tsirka, Vassiliki, Maletic, Jelena, Ioannidis, Panagiotis, Karacostas, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24826262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/575169

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24826262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/575169

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