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Cureus
; 10(3): e2301, 2018 Mar 10.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30018866
RESUMO
This report describes a case of aortic valve endocarditis with systemic and paradoxical pulmonary embolism in a patient with congenital interventricular communication. The patient underwent cardiac surgery and did not have a favorable outcome, presenting refractory cardiogenic shock and subsequently dying while in the hospital. This is an extremely rare case of paradoxical embolism in a patient with infective endocarditis; only four similar cases have been reported in the literature.