Staphylococcal abscess complicating endocardial aneurysmectomy
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Clinical Cardiology
- Vol. 7 (11) , 624-626
- https://doi.org/10.1002/clc.4960071115
Abstract
Subendocardial left ventricular aneurysmectomy relieved previously intractable ventricular tachycardia in a 68-year-old man with severe coronary artery disease. Staphylococcal septicemia developed postoperatively; an infected venoclysis site may have provided the portal of entry. Autopsy confirmed staphylococcal abscess at the epicardial aspect of the ventriculotomy, constituting the first reported case, to our knowledge, of this complication following endocardial surgery.Keywords
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