A palpable tender abdominal mass in a patient with endocarditis on antibiotics for 5 weeks ()
Stephanie L. Smeltzer,
Lourdes C. Corman
Department of Medicine, Huntsville Regional Campus, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Huntsville, USA.
Huntsville Regional Campus, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Huntsville, USA.
DOI: 10.4236/crcm.2013.21016
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Abstract
Mycotic aneurysms are a rare finding in the
post-antibiotic era but must still be considered as a cause of abdominal pain
in a patient with endocarditis. We present a
case of a 47-year-old man with a history of IV drug use and a prior episode of endocarditis who developed a mycotic aneurysm while hospitalized on IV
antibiotic therapy for aortic valve endocarditis. Due to their
life-threatening character and often lack of evident clinical picture,
mycotic aneurysms should still remain in high suspicion for a patient with
abdominal pain in the setting of endocarditis.
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Smeltzer, S. and Corman, L. (2013) A palpable tender abdominal mass in a patient with endocarditis on antibiotics for 5 weeks.
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
2, 58-59. doi:
10.4236/crcm.2013.21016.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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