An aortic root abscess complicating a non-previous underlying heart disease infective endocarditis in an immunocompetent young patient: A case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

and importance: Aortic infective endocarditis is a well described fatal disease that develops along the edges of the heart valves, although it can affect native and prosthetic valves, infection seldom affects a previously normal ones. Aortic root abscess as a complication of normal native aortic valve endocarditis is less recognized and described, it is a potentially fatal condition, which the diagnosis is based on clinical, biology, echocardiography and especially the intraoperative findings. Both native and prosthetic valve infection can be complicated by an aortic abscess, associated with a significant mortality rate, which often requires surgical intervention.

Case report

We report here a case of young man, with no major pathological history, non-syst

SUBMITTER: Hattab O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9289315 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature