Virtually All Complications of Active Infective Endocarditis Occurring in a Single Patient

Am J Cardiol. 2020 Dec 15:137:127-129. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2020.09.025. Epub 2020 Sep 28.

Abstract

Described herein is a 49-year-old black man with advanced polycystic renal disease, on hemodialysis for 6 years, who during his last 12 days of life had his vegetations on the aortic valve extend to the mitral and tricuspid valves, through the aortic wall to produce diffuse pericarditis, to the atrioventricular node to produce complete heart block, and embolize to cerebral arteries producing multiple brain infarcts, to a branch on the left circumflex coronary artery producing acute myocardial infarction, and to mesenteric arteries producing bowel infarction.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aortic Valve
  • Cerebral Infarction / diagnosis
  • Cerebral Infarction / etiology*
  • Echocardiography
  • Electrocardiography
  • Endocarditis / complications*
  • Endocarditis / diagnosis
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Heart Block / etiology*
  • Heart Valve Diseases / diagnosis
  • Heart Valve Diseases / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Mitral Valve
  • Myocardial Infarction / diagnosis
  • Myocardial Infarction / etiology*
  • Tricuspid Valve