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Clinico-pathological conference (CPC): Patient with congenital heart malformation and infective endocarditis

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: We present the case of a 17 year-old-man, with no remarkable past medical history, who had a one month history of worsening functional class, fatigability and dyspnea, in addition to fever and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS); a de-novo congenital heart malformation, situs inversus type, with levocardia and a ventricular septal defect (VSD) associated with transposition of great vessels were documented. During hospitalization he received several antibiotic treatments without microbiological isolation or identification of the cause of hemodynamic decompensation. An Aspergillus endocarditis with emboli to different organs was identified in the post-mortem examination.

Source: IATREIA

Authors: Zoraida Ramírez Ortiz, Luis Fernando Arias, Juan Carlos Cataño

Institution: Universidad de Antioquia

Language: English

Topic: Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1509732345

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