[A case of heart operation in infective endocarditis after brain surgery for mycotic cerebral aneurysm].

Complications of infective aneurysm are not rare in patients with infective endocarditis. An optimal timing of heart operation after brain surgery for hemorrhage is controversial. We reported a 19-year-old woman with ventricular septal defect (type II), mitral regurgitation and ruptured cerebral aneurysm with infective endocarditis. Cerebral aneurysm had been ruptured during infective endocarditis treatment. Resection of the aneurysm was performed next day. Vessel spasm occurred, resulting in cerebral infarction 7 days after the operation. Conservative therapy was continued for infective endocarditis until heart failure appeared. Heart operation was successfully performed 41 days after brain surgery without cerebral complication. This report indicates that heart operation might be avoided at the early postoperative stage of brain surgery for cerebral aneurysm with hemorrhage.