One case of with the right ventricular free wall vegetive infective endocarditis complicated by pulmonary embolism in a patient with ventricular septal defect / 대한내과학회지
Korean Journal of Medicine
; : 625-629, 2004.
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in Ko
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ABSTRACT
Infective endocarditis is still one of the important fatal diseases especially when it is accompanied with systemic embolic manifestations. So, this is often misdiagnosised because of a variability of systemic embolic manifestations. We experienced a case of infective endocarditis with pulmonic embolic manifestations whose illness was initially diagnosed as recurrent pneumonia. She was a 20-yrs-old girl with ventricular septal defect and treated as community acquired pneumonia. But transesophageal echocardiography revealed a vegetation on right ventricular free wall. So, she was diagnosed as having infective endocarditis and treated effectively with appropriate antibiotic therapy and discharged with improvement of symptoms. This a first case of infective endocarditis with ventricular septal defect who have a vegetation on right ventricular free wall in korea. Therefore, we report this case with brief review of related literatures.
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Database:
WPRIM
Main subject:
Pneumonia
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Pulmonary Embolism
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Echocardiography, Transesophageal
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Diagnostic Errors
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Endocarditis
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Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular
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Korea
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Ko
Journal:
Korean Journal of Medicine
Year:
2004
Document type:
Article