Survival from a Giant Mitral Valve Vegetation, Culture Negative Infective Endocarditis with Long Term Embolic Complications-Unusual Prolong Illness

Madiha Iqbal^1, , Bushra jamil², Marium Khurshid¹ and Fatima Anam Farooqi³

¹Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital

²Professor Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital

³Senior Resident, Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital

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Madiha Iqbal, Bushra jamil, Marium Khurshid and Fatima Anam Farooqi. Survival from a Giant Mitral Valve Vegetation, Culture Negative Infective Endocarditis with Long Term Embolic Complications-Unusual Prolong Illness. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2021; 9(8):411-413. doi: 10.12691/AJMCR-9-8-7

Abstract

Infective endocarditis remains an important clinical condition which if not picked and treated at time leads to devastating course. We present a case of middle aged female with prolong illness of around 2 months , developed devastating septic complications of infective endocarditis and underwent surgical resection of unusually giant vegetation with mitral valve replacement along with antibiotic treatment showed recovery soon after surgery, although her Blood cultures and tissue cultures remained negative. This case is of major interest that she was early recognized for all possible complications of the disease and treated accordingly with difficult surgery despite of prolong illness and complications.

Keywords

IE, vegetation, culture negative

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