Cerebral hemorrhage from a mycotic aneurysm developing during appropriate antibiotic therapy.
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Stroke
- Vol. 9 (3) , 267-268
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.str.9.3.267
Abstract
A patient with bacterial endocarditis had headaches, cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis and normal cerebral angiograms. Fifteen days later, while on appropriate antibiotic therapy, he developed an intracerebral hematoma due to a mycotic aneurysm. Mycotic aneurysm is an infrequent but serious complication of bacterial endocarditis. An aneurysm should be considered whenever a patient with bacterial endocarditis has neurologic symptoms even when the patient is receiving antibiotics.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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