Abnormality of a valve predisposes to bacterial endocarditis, even when mechanical beating action is absent, as in destruction of a cusp by previous rheumatic disease. Yet the formation of vegetations at sites other than valvular endocardium is rare; and, in spite of the frequency and apparent suitability of aortic ulcers, no report of bacterial endarteritis upon simple atheroma has been found ...

endocarditis due to aspergillus infection is a rare complication in patients with hematological malignancies. here, we present a case of aspergillus endocarditis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia (aml) successfully treated with antifungal therapy and surgical treatment. the patient was a 51 years old male, a known case of aml who was admitted to our medical center for evacuating his valv...

The presentation of a pig farmer with acute arthritis of the shoulder, cardiac murmurs, and Streptococcus suis growing on blood cultures highlights one of the rheumatological presentations of bacterial endocarditis. The need for a thorough general medical examination together with synovial fluid and blood culture in patients with acute monarthritis is emphasised. The suggestion that acute arthr...

We describe a patient with sub-acute bacterial endocarditis, whose chief presenting feature was mild expressive dysphasia.

1. In most cases of chronic or subacute bacterial endocarditis due to the endocarditis coccus (Streptococcus viridans), there exists a distinctive pathological lesion in some of the glomeruli due to bacterial emboli. 2. The salient features of the pathological picture are first, the involvement of one or more loops of a variable number of glomeruli; secondly, the absence of any visible disease ...

infective endocarditis is one of the most severe complications of parenteral drug abuse. the outstanding clinical feature of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug abusers is the high incidence of right-sided valve infection, and the tricuspid valve is involved in 60% to 70% of the cases. we herein report a case of isolated pulmonic valve infective endocarditis with a native pulmonary valve.