endocarditis resulting in annular rupture: a case report.

is the third most common organism to cause infective endocarditis and is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. infective endocarditis often presents with a subacute course and with nonspecific constitutional symptoms. Complications related to infective endocarditis are common and include embolic events, abscess formation and pseudoaneurysm formation. Contained annular rupture is a complication of infective endocarditis that, to the authors knowledge, has not been previously described in the literature. Herein, we present an unusual case of a 62-year-old male presenting with classical symptoms of infective endocarditis which resulted in an unusual complication of this condition, a contained annular rupture and the surgical management undertaken to correct this condition.