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Infective endocarditis complicated by fatal cerebral hemorrhage revealing an unrepaired univentricular heart in a 19-year-old woman
✍ Scribed by Sofiene Rekik; Imen Trabelsi; Mourad Hentati; Samir Kammoun
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Univentricular heart is a complex and rare cyanotic congenital heart disease. When not operated, affected patients exceptionally reach adulthood. We report the unprecedented case of a 19 year‐old young woman, admitted to the hospital for a severe deterioration of general status and ultimately diagnosed to have an infective endocarditis with multiple vegetations in a previously undiagnosed univentricular heart of left ventricular morphology, subsequently rapidly complicated by fatal cerebral hemorrhage. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2011