Chee Yong Ng, Wenxiang Yeon, Siang Chew Chai, Weien Chow, Roy Debajyoti
Renal Medicine, Changi General Hospital, Singapore, SGP.
Cardiology, Changi General Hospital, Singapore, SGP.
Cureus. 2021 Nov 2;13(11):e19220. doi: 10.7759/cureus.19220. eCollection 2021 Nov.
A 54-year-old man on maintenance hemodialysis with recurrent catheter-related bloodstream infections due to was admitted. Multiple prior transthoracic echocardiograms failed to reveal any vegetation. Subsequently on transesophageal echocardiography a mass consistent with fibrin sheath vegetations was identified and a follow-up diagnostic computed tomography (CT) venogram confirmed the presence of a fibrin sheath with vegetations.
一名54岁维持性血液透析患者因反复发生导管相关血流感染入院。此前多次经胸超声心动图检查均未发现任何赘生物。随后经食管超声心动图检查发现一个与纤维蛋白鞘赘生物相符的肿块,后续诊断性计算机断层扫描(CT)静脉造影证实存在伴有赘生物的纤维蛋白鞘。