Embolia múltipla em portadora de endocardite infecciosa: dor lombar e hematúria como manifestações clínicas iniciais / Multiple embolism in a female patient with infective endocarditis: low back pain and hematuria as the initial clinical manifestations
Arq. bras. cardiol
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78(6): 592-597, June 2002. ilus
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in Portuguese, English
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ABSTRACT
A 59-year-old female patient with mitral valve prolapse and a previous history of lumbosacral spondyloarthrosis and lumbar disk hernia had an episode of infective endocarditis due to Streptococcus viridans, which evolved with peripheral embolism to the left kidney, spleen, and left iliac artery, and intraventricular cerebral hemorrhage. Her clinical manifestations were low back pain and hematuria, which were initially attributed to an osteoarticular condition. Infective endocarditis is a severe polymorphic disease with multiple clinical manifestations and it should always be included in the differential diagnosis by clinicians
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Main subject:
Mitral Valve Prolapse
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Low Back Pain
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Embolism
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Endocarditis, Bacterial
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Hematuria
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
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Portuguese
Journal:
Arq. bras. cardiol
Journal subject:
Cardiology
Year:
2002
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Hospital e Maternidade Säo Luiz/BR
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