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ArticleThe international journal of cardiovascular imaging2024

Intramyocardial abscess and endoventricular thrombosis: a complex case.

Luca Rodella, Davide Pegorin, Roberta Rosati, Michela Raffo, Enrico Vizzardi, Marco Metra

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Article in The international journal of cardiovascular imaging, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Mitral valve abscess: echocardiographic imaging, microbiology, management, and outcomes.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luca RodellaDepartment of Medical-Surgical Specialty, Radiology and Health Care, Cardiovascular Disease Section, School of Medicine, Spedali Civili Hospital, Via Naviglio Grande 74, Brescia, 25123, Italy. l.rodella004@unibs.it.
Davide PegorinDepartment of Medical-Surgical Specialty, Radiology and Health Care, Cardiovascular Disease Section, School of Medicine, Spedali Civili Hospital, Via Naviglio Grande 74, Brescia, 25123, Italy.
Roberta RosatiDepartment of Medical-Surgical Specialty, Radiology and Health Care, Cardiovascular Disease Section, School of Medicine, Spedali Civili Hospital, Via Naviglio Grande 74, Brescia, 25123, Italy.
Michela RaffoDepartment of Medical-Surgical Specialty, Radiology and Health Care, Cardiovascular Disease Section, School of Medicine, Spedali Civili Hospital, Via Naviglio Grande 74, Brescia, 25123, Italy.
Enrico VizzardiDepartment of Medical-Surgical Specialty, Radiology and Health Care, Cardiovascular Disease Section, School of Medicine, Spedali Civili Hospital, Via Naviglio Grande 74, Brescia, 25123, Italy.
Marco MetraDepartment of Medical-Surgical Specialty, Radiology and Health Care, Cardiovascular Disease Section, School of Medicine, Spedali Civili Hospital, Via Naviglio Grande 74, Brescia, 25123, Italy.
Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale degli Spedali Civili di Brescia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infective endocarditis (IE) is today a public health problem, as the recent ESC Guidelines have also recalled. Abscesses can be complications of IE and their presence means that the infection is not controlled. We describe the complex case of a 57-year-old patient, presented in ED for fever and oleocranical bursitis, increase of cardiac enymes at blood samples. He was admitted to our Cardiology Unit because TTE showed a floating peduncolated formation in the left ventricle. The susequent TEE documented also the presence of a myocardial abscess, confirmed at cardiac MRI. Blood cultures were positive for MSSA and the man received specific antibiotic therapy. Anticoagulation treatment was started with UFH and then switched to Warfarin, surgical approach of the lesion would have been too dangerous according to Cardiac Surgeons. Serious and sudden neurological complications then followed, leading the patient to brain death in ICU.

Indexed as

AbscessAnti-Bacterial AgentsEchocardiography, TransesophagealEndocarditis, BacterialThrombosisAnticoagulantsFatal OutcomeHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedStaphylococcal InfectionsTreatment OutcomeAnti-Bacterial AgentsAnticoagulantsAbscessAntibiotic therapyEchocardiogramInfective endocarditis

Identifiers

PMID38613607
PMCPMC11258067
OpenAlexW4394784697

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