Clinical Case Reports (Aug 2020)

Septic perimyocarditis due to a right‐sided infective endocarditis of atypical morphology in a 33‐year‐old woman

  • Jan‐Per Wenzel,
  • Benedikt Schrage,
  • Christoph Sinning,
  • Stefan Blankenberg,
  • Elvin Zengin‐Sahm,
  • Edith Lubos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2914
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 8
pp. 1486 – 1488

Abstract

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Abstract Perimyocarditis should be considered in patients with endocarditis not improving with conventional therapy and without typical valvular abnormalities. Vegetations can be sited anywhere in the atrium or ventricle and exhibit multiple shapes.

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