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- Title
Meningitis as a complication of infective endocarditis.
- Authors
Cordeiro Veiga, Viviane; César de Carvalho, Júlio; Campodonico Amaya, Luis Enrique; Sérgio Martins, Marcos; Ordinola Rojas, Salomón Soriano
- Abstract
Although approximately 30% of patients with endocarditis present with neurological complications, the development of meningitis in these patients is rare. This case report describes a female patient who developed meningitis as a complication of mitral valve endocarditis, and surgery was required for this patient due to acute heart failure resulting from the rupture of the chordae tendineae.
- Subjects
MITRAL valve; CHORDAE tendineae
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Terapia Intensiva, 2012, Vol 24, Issue 3, p308
- ISSN
0103-507X
- Publication type
Case Study