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Rev. bras. cardiol. (Impr.) ; 27(5): 366-369, set.-out. 2014. ilus
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-742408

ABSTRACT

Paciente feminina, 19 anos, foi admitida na emergência com febre diária e cefaleia. Evoluiu com alteração demarcha, de fala, confusão mental, disartria, dispneia, taquicardia, petéquias nas solas e hemorragia subungueal. Realizado ecocardiograma transesofágicoque revelou valva mitral com espessamento de folhetos, falta de coaptação, moderada insuficiência egrande vegetação (10 mm x 4 mm) aderida ao endocárdio da face posterior do átrio esquerdo. Colheu-se hemocultura positiva para Staphylococcus aureus, e a paciente foi diagnosticada com endocarditeinfecciosa pelos critérios de Duke modificados, dando-se início à antibioticoterapia. Ela apresentou boa evolução clínica, entretanto, a febre persistia. Realizou-se tomografia de crânio, que revelou abscesso cerebral.A paciente então foi submetida à drenagem, com resolução da febre.


A 19 year-old female patient was admitted to the ER with daily fever and headache, progressing to altered gait, unclear speech, mental confusion,dysarthria, dyspnea, tachycardia, petechiae on the soles of the feet and subungual hemorrhage.Transesophageal echocardiography shows thickening of the mitral valve leaflets, lack of coaptation, moderate insufficiency and large vegetation (10mm x 4mm) adhering to theendocardium of the posterior left atrial wall. The blood culture was positive for Staphylococcus aureus. The patient was diagnosed with infective endocarditisaccording to the modified Duke criteria, and antibiotic treatment was started. Although progressing well in clinical terms, the fever persisted. Cranial tomography showed a brain abscess that was drained, thus lowering the fever.


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Humans , Female , Young Adult , Brain Abscess/physiopathology , Brain Abscess/therapy , Endocarditis, Bacterial/physiopathology , Endocarditis, Bacterial/therapy , Heart Atria , Echocardiography, Transesophageal/methods , Staphylococcus aureus , Tomography/methods
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