Rekik S, Trabelsi I, Hentati M, Kammoun S. Infective endocarditis complicated by fatal cerebral hemorrhage revealing an unrepaired univentricular heart in a 19-year-old woman.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ULTRASOUND : JCU 2011;
39:293-295. [PMID:
21547931 DOI:
10.1002/jcu.20761]
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Abstract
Univentricular heart is a complex and rare cyanotic congenital heart disease. When not operated, affected patients exceptionally reach adulthood. We report the unprecedented case of a 19 year-old young woman, admitted to the hospital for a severe deterioration of general status and ultimately diagnosed to have an infective endocarditis with multiple vegetations in a previously undiagnosed univentricular heart of left ventricular morphology, subsequently rapidly complicated by fatal cerebral hemorrhage.
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