A case of infective endocarditis from Enterococcus faecalis after colonoscopy in a patient with aortic stenoinsufficiency and bleeding intestinal angiodysplasia (Heyde's syndrome) is reported.A 77 year old man with aortic stenoinsufficiency presented with enterorrhagia and underwent a colonoscopy, which showed normal findings. Fifteen days later he developed a moderate degree of fever. Blood cu...

We report the case of a 50-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus who had previously undergone pacemaker implantation. She developed recurrent pulmonary thromboembolism and was diagnosed with antiphospholipid syndrome. During investigation, pacemaker endocarditis was discovered, and the system was surgically explanted. Surprisingly, all microbiological studies, including culture of th...

UNLABELLED Myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries typically occurs in patients under 50 years of age. There is usually no history of angina or previous myocardial infarction, and risk factors for ischemic heart disease are frequently absent. We report a 27-year-old heroin user with normal coronary arteries and inferior wall infarction secondary to infective endocarditis. The left v...

Disseminated intravascular coagulation is a pathologic syndrome with different medical disorders. Diagnosis and treatment of this syndrome is one of the difficult managements in medical science. Thromboelastogram is the only guide for early diagnosis and precise management of this syndrome. We describe a patient who developed disseminated intravascular coagulation due to endocarditis and spleen...

Identifying the pathogen responsible for culture-negative valve endocarditis often depends on molecular studies performed on surgical specimens. A patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome who had an aortic graft, a mechanical aortic valve, and a mitral anulloplasty ring presented with culture-negative prosthetic valve endocarditis and aortic graft infection. Research-based polymerase chain reaction ...

The most common symptoms of Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) are heart defects and unusual facial features. objective this case report was to highlight the preparation comprehensive dental care for syndrome. A seven-year-old boy came with multiple caries as a chief complaint. Parents reported history corrected tetralogy Fallot (ToF) three years ago. routine medical check-up carried out annually. ...

A 34-year-old man was presented with aortic infective endocarditis and acute coronary syndrome due to an extrinsic coronary compression due to periannular complications.

Since the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s the mortality associated with invasive pneumococcal infection (IPI) resulted in a rapid decline [1]. In recent years, a larger number of cases have been reported due to penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains [2]. Austrian syndrome is a rare triad of pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis [3]. We hereby present a case of in...