Multimodality imaging in a late septic infection of aortic graft

A 70-year-old diabetic female patient presented with fatigue, headaches, hallucinations and shivers following a history of sinusitis and ophthalmitis. She had an aortic surgery performed 7 years ago for a stenotic and regurgitant aortic valve with aneurysm of the ascending aorta. Work-up brain MRI r...

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Autores principales: Arzanauskaite, Monika, Jankauskas, Antanas, Arzanauskiene, Reda, Keleras, Evaldas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30363674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150396
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author Arzanauskaite, Monika
Jankauskas, Antanas
Arzanauskiene, Reda
Keleras, Evaldas
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description A 70-year-old diabetic female patient presented with fatigue, headaches, hallucinations and shivers following a history of sinusitis and ophthalmitis. She had an aortic surgery performed 7 years ago for a stenotic and regurgitant aortic valve with aneurysm of the ascending aorta. Work-up brain MRI revealed septic–embolic encephalitis. Multimodality cardiovascular imaging showed abnormal anterior wall of the ascending aortic graft with vegetation extending into the lumen. Blood culture was only positive for Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, an uncommon cause of infective endocarditis. During aortic surgery, the intraluminal vegetation with suppurated perigraft tissue was confirmed.
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spelling pubmed-61808922018-10-25 Multimodality imaging in a late septic infection of aortic graft Arzanauskaite, Monika Jankauskas, Antanas Arzanauskiene, Reda Keleras, Evaldas BJR Case Rep Case Report A 70-year-old diabetic female patient presented with fatigue, headaches, hallucinations and shivers following a history of sinusitis and ophthalmitis. She had an aortic surgery performed 7 years ago for a stenotic and regurgitant aortic valve with aneurysm of the ascending aorta. Work-up brain MRI revealed septic–embolic encephalitis. Multimodality cardiovascular imaging showed abnormal anterior wall of the ascending aortic graft with vegetation extending into the lumen. Blood culture was only positive for Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, an uncommon cause of infective endocarditis. During aortic surgery, the intraluminal vegetation with suppurated perigraft tissue was confirmed. The British Institute of Radiology 2016-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6180892/ /pubmed/30363674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20150396 Text en © 2015 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180892/
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