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Infective Endocarditis Involving Mitral and Aortic Valves With Interatrial Septal Abscess

Infectious endocarditis (IE) is an infection of the endocardial surface and frequently refers to the infection of one or more heart valves. The clinical manifestations of IE are highly variable, with fever being the most common symptom, along with other nonspecific symptoms such as chills, anorexia,...

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Autores principales: Kim, Jean, Ha, James, Park, Christina, Chung, Eric Y
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8289397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34290923
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15730
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description Infectious endocarditis (IE) is an infection of the endocardial surface and frequently refers to the infection of one or more heart valves. The clinical manifestations of IE are highly variable, with fever being the most common symptom, along with other nonspecific symptoms such as chills, anorexia, malaise, and myalgias. IE is associated with various systemic complications including septic emboli, cardiac complications such as valvular vegetations and intracardiac abscess, neurologic complications, and systemic immune reactions. In this case report, we present a patient with an IE that involved both mitral and aortic valves as well as a unique pathology with an interatrial septal abscess. 
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spelling pubmed-82893972021-07-20 Infective Endocarditis Involving Mitral and Aortic Valves With Interatrial Septal Abscess Kim, Jean Ha, James Park, Christina Chung, Eric Y Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Infectious endocarditis (IE) is an infection of the endocardial surface and frequently refers to the infection of one or more heart valves. The clinical manifestations of IE are highly variable, with fever being the most common symptom, along with other nonspecific symptoms such as chills, anorexia, malaise, and myalgias. IE is associated with various systemic complications including septic emboli, cardiac complications such as valvular vegetations and intracardiac abscess, neurologic complications, and systemic immune reactions. In this case report, we present a patient with an IE that involved both mitral and aortic valves as well as a unique pathology with an interatrial septal abscess.  Cureus 2021-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8289397/ /pubmed/34290923 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15730 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kim et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kim, Jean
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Infective Endocarditis Involving Mitral and Aortic Valves With Interatrial Septal Abscess
title Infective Endocarditis Involving Mitral and Aortic Valves With Interatrial Septal Abscess
title_full Infective Endocarditis Involving Mitral and Aortic Valves With Interatrial Septal Abscess
title_fullStr Infective Endocarditis Involving Mitral and Aortic Valves With Interatrial Septal Abscess
title_full_unstemmed Infective Endocarditis Involving Mitral and Aortic Valves With Interatrial Septal Abscess
title_short Infective Endocarditis Involving Mitral and Aortic Valves With Interatrial Septal Abscess
title_sort infective endocarditis involving mitral and aortic valves with interatrial septal abscess
topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8289397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34290923
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15730
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