Pandemic created clinical eclipse: hemosiderosis versus COVID-19 pneumonia.

In the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, the physician finds difficulty in differentiating the symptoms due to cardiac disease from that of SARS-CoV-2. We would like to present one such mystified situation (hemosiderosis versus SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia) we encountered.

Incidental Diagnosis of Healed Aortic Abscess Cavity.

In infective endocarditis, the perivalvular abscess is a known complication with an incidence of more than 22%-29%, but the primary presentation of a healed aortic abscess without any clinical features of infective endocarditis is very rare. These sorts of cases are scarcely documented throughout literature. We present a successful surgical closure of healed perivalvular abscess cavity with aortic valve replacement and mitral valve repair.