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Blood in, blood out: left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following mitral valve endocarditis.

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Sartipy U

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3598052 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Blood in, blood out: left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following mitral valve endocarditis.

Sartipy Ulrik U Ivert Torbjörn T Ugander Martin M

Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery 20130117 4

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 t ...[more]

PMID: 23328004

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