Pepe Vincent, Afari Henrietta, O'Quinn Rupal P, Arjoon Roy
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
JACC Case Rep. 2024 Aug 7;29(15):102431. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102431.
This report presents the case of a 76-year-old woman from Honduras with severe mitral annular calcification and severe aortic stenosis who presented with chest pain and presyncope. She was found to have infective endocarditis with a large abscess on the posterior mitral leaflet secondary to bacteremia.
本报告介绍了一名来自洪都拉斯的76岁女性病例,该患者患有严重的二尖瓣环钙化和严重的主动脉瓣狭窄,出现胸痛和晕厥前症状。她被发现患有感染性心内膜炎,二尖瓣后叶继发菌血症形成大脓肿。