A Rare Case of Aortoatrial Fistula from Streptococcal Endocarditis

We represent an unfortunate case of postinfluenza streptococcal endocarditis in a 34-year-old healthy male. He presented with hypoxic respiratory failure and was found to have mitral and aortic valve vegetation. Hospital course was complicated by the presence of an aortoatrial fistula from an aortic...

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Autores principales: Arshad, Hammad, Young, Meilin, Rali, Parth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5516764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28761772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8189658
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description We represent an unfortunate case of postinfluenza streptococcal endocarditis in a 34-year-old healthy male. He presented with hypoxic respiratory failure and was found to have mitral and aortic valve vegetation. Hospital course was complicated by the presence of an aortoatrial fistula from an aortic root abscess, persistent septic shock, and multiorgan failure.
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spelling pubmed-55167642017-07-31 A Rare Case of Aortoatrial Fistula from Streptococcal Endocarditis Arshad, Hammad Young, Meilin Rali, Parth Case Rep Pulmonol Case Report We represent an unfortunate case of postinfluenza streptococcal endocarditis in a 34-year-old healthy male. He presented with hypoxic respiratory failure and was found to have mitral and aortic valve vegetation. Hospital course was complicated by the presence of an aortoatrial fistula from an aortic root abscess, persistent septic shock, and multiorgan failure. Hindawi 2017 2017-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5516764/ /pubmed/28761772 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8189658 Text en Copyright © 2017 Hammad Arshad et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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A Rare Case of Aortoatrial Fistula from Streptococcal Endocarditis
title A Rare Case of Aortoatrial Fistula from Streptococcal Endocarditis
title_full A Rare Case of Aortoatrial Fistula from Streptococcal Endocarditis
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Aortoatrial Fistula from Streptococcal Endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Aortoatrial Fistula from Streptococcal Endocarditis
title_short A Rare Case of Aortoatrial Fistula from Streptococcal Endocarditis
title_sort rare case of aortoatrial fistula from streptococcal endocarditis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5516764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28761772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8189658
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