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A case of 47-year old woman operated on because of a chronic left ventricular false aneurysm caused by Staphylococcus aureus septicemia and endocarditis 8-years earlier is described. After septicemia was cured, clinical status improved so markedly that the patient refused to undergo recommended operation until onset of heart failure (NYHA III). She was operated on from the median sternotomy with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. After pericardial adhesions were dissected free, the large left ventricular false aneurysm with severely calcified wall was found. The aneurysm was excised completely and its orifice closed with non-absorbable monofilament 3-0 suture. Postoperative course was complicated by epileptic attack accompanied by loss of consciousness and left hemiplegia on 4th day after surgery. Neurological symptoms regressed within 48 hours and on 12th postoperative day she was discharged from a hospital in a good clinical status.
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PMID:[Chronic left ventricular pseudoaneurysm caused by Staphylococcus aureus septicemia accompanied by endocarditis]. 1619 30

We present a case of Staphylococcus aureus septicaemia complicated with endocarditis and spondylodiscitis C2-C3 with compressive epidural mass in a 74-year old patient with a history of gouty arthritis and aortic prosthetic valve. Tophaceous material has been found when surgical decompression of the abscess has been performed. Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is a serious and common infection with high mortality and complication rate. Amongst those complications, endocarditis is more likely to develop if cardiac prosthetic valve is present. The probability of a metastatic infection may be evaluated by several factors, such as: the time to positivity of blood culture, a community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and the presence of Osler nodes. All were present in our case. In fact, spondylodiscitis C2-C3 with compressive epidural mass was discovered, which was suspected to be an epidural abscess. Epidural abscess is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease that remains often underdiagnosed. Diagnosis is made by imaging and anatomopathological findings. In the case of our patient the finding of tophaceous material raises the issue of the nature of the epidural lesion. Spinal involvement with gout has been described. It can mimic epidural abscesses, most often in an infectious context as it was the case of our patient.
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PMID:[Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and epidural mass in a patient with tophaceous gout]. 1964 94

Right heart infective endocarditis in an elderly patient with no previous known risk factors is a very rare situation (even if subacute infective endocarditis has the same chance of occurrence at either a young person, or an elderly patient). We present the case of a 75-years old patient, with no previous cardiac history, addressed to our clinic with nonspecific septic symptoms associated with an edematous syndrome. The patient was treated for right heart valve infective endocarditis; a particularity may be the fact not all Duke criteria were respected. Iatrogeny was involved, our patient having administered a 7-day antibiotic treatment before hospital addressing. The therapeutic probe was positive: excellent evolution under treatment. Few cases of infective endocarditis of the tricuspid valve were reported worldwide, in which the source of infection was unknown in about 80% of cases. In two pediatric cases reported, tricuspid endocarditis was caused by Staphylococcus aureus septicemia following upper respiratory infection. This may also occur in adult cases. Further investigations should be carried out in the future to elucidate the source of infection. Isolated right-sided endocarditis should be included in the differential diagnosis of patients with febrile syndrome, respiratory symptoms and predisposing disease, even when they do not have a pacemaker and are not intravenous-drug users (IVDU).
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PMID:Infective endocarditis--a forgotten cause for heart insufficiency in elderly. Case report. 2019 29

Septicemia, one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal period, often has a rapid and fulminant course. Low-birth-weight infants with persistent Staphylococcus aureus septicemia, possibly associated with percutaneous central venous catheters, may develop metastatic infections including endocarditis with large vegetations. This article describes a neonate with S. aureus bacteremia that resolved with treatment who died secondary to decreased left ventricular function. At autopsy, organizing microthrombi were seen within both atria, the left ventricle, and the left coronary arterial system. Extensive infarcts were noted throughout the entire myocardium of the left ventricle. It was suspected, but not proven, that the thrombotic sequelae from septicemia caused this neonate's death.
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PMID:Staphylococcus aureus Septicemia with a fatal transmural myocardial infarction in a 27-week-gestation twin infant: a case study. 2021 29

A 76-year old male on warfarin due to atrial fibrillation was admitted with Staphylococcus aureus septicaemia. Echocardiography demonstrated mitral valve endocarditis, and shortly thereafter, he suffered an intracranial haemorrhage as a result of septic embolism. Four weeks later, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed a newly formed pseudoaneurysm. A left ventricular pseudoaneurysm caused by infective endocarditis is very rare, but awareness of this unusual complication may allow surgery to prevent rupture.
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PMID:Blood in, blood out: left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following mitral valve endocarditis. 2350 59


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