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- Title
ACUTE ON CHRONIC LIMB-THREATENING ISCHEMIA ASSOCIATED WITH SEPTIC EMBOLISM IN PATIENT WITH INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS.
- Authors
Laras Ati, Nindya Sari Diajeng; Subagjo, Agus; Muhammad, Rizal; Nugraha, Ricardo Adrian; Aditya, Muhammad
- Abstract
Septic embolism associated with infective endocarditis (IE) is the occlusion of a blood vessel caused by an infected thrombus traveling through the bloodstream resulting in ischemia and/or infarction. Septic embolism can result in ischemia and/or infarction due to vascular occlusion and infection, resulting in inflammation and possible abscess formation. Systemic embolization generally occurs in left-sided IE, causing stroke, blindness due to embolism or endophthalmitis, splenic or renal infarct, limb ischemia, or even acute myocardial infarction. Here, we report a case of acute on chronic limb-threatening ischemia due to septic embolism in patient with IE.
- Subjects
INFECTIVE endocarditis; MYOCARDIAL infarction; EMBOLISMS; Q fever; ISCHEMIA; ARTERIAL occlusions; PERIPHERAL vascular diseases
- Publication
Pakistan Heart Journal, 2023, Vol 56, Issue 1, p124
- ISSN
0048-2706
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.47144/phj.v56i1.2408