| Literature DB >> 12185859 |
Marcelo Luiz Campos Vieira1, Mônica Luisa Rappi Schmidt, Marcos Valério Coimbra de Resende, Luis Sérgio Afonso de André Júnior.
Abstract
A 59-year-old female patient with mitral valve prolapse and a previous history of lumbosacral spondyloarthrosis and lumbar disk hernia had an episode of infective endocarditis due to Streptococcus viridans, which evolved with peripheral embolism to the left kidney, spleen, and left iliac artery, and intraventricular cerebral hemorrhage. Her clinical manifestations were low back pain and hematuria, which were initially attributed to an osteoarticular condition. Infective endocarditis is a severe polymorphic disease with multiple clinical manifestations and it should always be included in the differential diagnosis by clinicians.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 12185859 DOI: 10.1590/s0066-782x2002000600007
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arq Bras Cardiol ISSN: 0066-782X Impact factor: 2.000