An Adult with Atrial Septal Defect Presenting with a Brain Abscess

The common heart diseases resulting in a brain abscess are associated with a right to left shunt and include tetralogy of Fallot and transposition of great vessels. Atrial septal defect (ASD) is almost always associated with the left to right shunt and therefore is not a commonly considered risk fac...

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Autores principales: Nair, Bijesh Ravindran, Jonathan, Edmond, Moorthy, Ranjith Krishna, Rajshekhar, Vedantam, George, Oommen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5652112/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114300
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_194_14
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author Nair, Bijesh Ravindran
Jonathan, Edmond
Moorthy, Ranjith Krishna
Rajshekhar, Vedantam
George, Oommen
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description The common heart diseases resulting in a brain abscess are associated with a right to left shunt and include tetralogy of Fallot and transposition of great vessels. Atrial septal defect (ASD) is almost always associated with the left to right shunt and therefore is not a commonly considered risk factor for brain abscess. We report the case of a 29-year-old male, with no symptoms of cardiac disease, who presented with the left posterior frontal pyogenic abscess which led to the detection of a silent ASD. Our case emphasizes the need for a careful evaluation of the source of infection in patients with a brain abscess.
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spelling pubmed-56521122017-11-07 An Adult with Atrial Septal Defect Presenting with a Brain Abscess Nair, Bijesh Ravindran Jonathan, Edmond Moorthy, Ranjith Krishna Rajshekhar, Vedantam George, Oommen Asian J Neurosurg Case Report The common heart diseases resulting in a brain abscess are associated with a right to left shunt and include tetralogy of Fallot and transposition of great vessels. Atrial septal defect (ASD) is almost always associated with the left to right shunt and therefore is not a commonly considered risk factor for brain abscess. We report the case of a 29-year-old male, with no symptoms of cardiac disease, who presented with the left posterior frontal pyogenic abscess which led to the detection of a silent ASD. Our case emphasizes the need for a careful evaluation of the source of infection in patients with a brain abscess. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5652112/ /pubmed/29114300 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_194_14 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Asian Journal of Neurosurgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114300
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ajns.AJNS_194_14
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