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

1Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital

2Professor Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital

3Senior Resident, Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital


American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2021, Vol. 9 No. 8, 411-413
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-9-8-7
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Madiha Iqbal, Bushra jamil, Marium Khurshid, 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.

Correspondence to: Madiha  Iqbal, Chief Resident, Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital. Email: madiha.iqbal18@gmail.com

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.

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