13Oct 2018

A CORONARYSEPTICEMBOLISM: AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION OF INFECTIVEENDOCARDITIS.

  • Departement of cardiology B, CHUIbnSina, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
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We report a case of a 60-year-old man with diagnostic of infectiveendocarditisinvolvingboth the aorticand the mitral valves.Empirictreatmentwithoxacillin and gentamicinwasstarted.Twodaysafteradmission, the patient sustained an acute ST elevation myocardialinfarction in inferior.Thecoronaryangiographyrevealed an occlusion at the end of leftanteriordescending (LAD)arterywithoutrecovery,while the remainingcoronaryarterieswerecompletely free fromanystenosis/atheroscleroticlesion.After a period of furtherantibiotictherapy,the patient received mitral and aortic valve replacement.

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[El GhachamElAmraniSihame,MajdoubKawtar,Fatima-zahra El Hattab, AbakarBachar ,QatAmin,RaissZakaria, AmriRachida,ZarzurJamila and Cherti Mohamed. (2018); A CORONARYSEPTICEMBOLISM: AN UNUSUAL COMPLICATION OF INFECTIVEENDOCARDITIS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 6 (Oct). 864-867] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

El GhachamElAmraniSihame
Departement of cardiology B,CHU Ibn Sina,Mohammed V University,Rabat,Morocco

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/7881      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/7881

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