Eustachian valve endocarditis: a case report on an under diagnosed entity

Patients presenting with bacteremia and the presence of multiple infected emboli sites should be promptly investigated for heart valve endocarditis as the possible culprit. We present a case of Eustachian valve endocarditis secondary to multiple abdominal surgeries to highlight not only the importan...

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Autores principales: Hasan, Syed, Blanco, Anamarys, Faluk, Mohammed, Nasser, Hesham
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7425621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850051
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1742474
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description Patients presenting with bacteremia and the presence of multiple infected emboli sites should be promptly investigated for heart valve endocarditis as the possible culprit. We present a case of Eustachian valve endocarditis secondary to multiple abdominal surgeries to highlight not only the importance of recognizing risks factors, other than intravenous drug use, in the pathogenesis of right sided endocarditis, but also to illustrate the significance of systematically interrogating all the heart valves, including the Eustachian valve during echocardiography.
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spelling pubmed-74256212020-08-25 Eustachian valve endocarditis: a case report on an under diagnosed entity Hasan, Syed Blanco, Anamarys Faluk, Mohammed Nasser, Hesham J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report Patients presenting with bacteremia and the presence of multiple infected emboli sites should be promptly investigated for heart valve endocarditis as the possible culprit. We present a case of Eustachian valve endocarditis secondary to multiple abdominal surgeries to highlight not only the importance of recognizing risks factors, other than intravenous drug use, in the pathogenesis of right sided endocarditis, but also to illustrate the significance of systematically interrogating all the heart valves, including the Eustachian valve during echocardiography. Taylor & Francis 2020-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7425621/ /pubmed/32850051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2020.1742474 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Greater Baltimore Medical Center. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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