A rare case of septic pulmonary embolism in co-existence with infective endocarditis and COVID-19

Infective endocarditis (IE) symptoms including fever, fatigue, dyspnea and myalgia are similar in COVID-19 findings. Therefore, the diagnosis of IE may be missed in patients with COVID-19. Co-existence with IE in COVID-19 is rarely reported. However, to our knowledge, only one case of septic pulmona...

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Autores principales: Ozdemir, Yusuf Emre, Demir, Adile Sevde, Ozdemir, Meryem Sahin, Mavi, Busra, Ozen, Can, Karaosmanoglu, Hayat Kumbasar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Future Medicine Ltd 2022
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9302239/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35873407
http://dx.doi.org/10.2217/fvl-2022-0029
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Sumario:Infective endocarditis (IE) symptoms including fever, fatigue, dyspnea and myalgia are similar in COVID-19 findings. Therefore, the diagnosis of IE may be missed in patients with COVID-19. Co-existence with IE in COVID-19 is rarely reported. However, to our knowledge, only one case of septic pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 and IE was reported. Here, we describe a case of septic embolism due to tricuspid endocarditis caused by intravenous drug use in patients with COVID-19. In this fatal case, the use of prophylactic anticoagulants due to COVID-19 probably caused the tendency to hemorrhagic cerebrovascular complications. Our report emphasizes the complexity of anticoagulant prophylaxis in patients with COVID-19 which may cause hypercoagulopathy in co-existence with IE.

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