Cardiology & Heart Surgery

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Complex Case Spotlight

Chasing Down Complications of Untreated Infective Endocarditis

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Transthoracic Echocardiogram Reveals Vegetations

A patient with a bicuspid aortic valve presented with persistent fever, rashes and joint pain. Specialists diagnosed the patient with infective endocarditis after an initial transthoracic echocardiogram showed two small masses on the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve, each about 5 by 12 millimeters in size, and blood cultures came back positive.

The patient’s echocardiogram showing mitral valve vegetations.
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Additional echocardiography revealed vegetations on the aortic valve.

The patient’s echocardiogram showing aortic valve vegetations.
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Treating the Multi-Organ Infection

Further imaging revealed an aortic root abscess plus multiple septic brain emboli, a splenic abscess, and renal infarction. The aortic valve was successfully replaced using a pulmonary autograft (Ross) procedure, during which the mitral valve vegetations were removed. The infection to the spleen necessitated its removal and the remaining infections were treated with postoperative antibiotics.

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The patient’s echocardiogram demonstrating aortic root abscess.
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