Clinical Case Reports (Mar 2023)

A case of adult patent ductus arteriosus‐associated infective endarteritis who was successfully treated with only antibiotics

  • Akira Kanai,
  • Yuichi Chikata,
  • Hiroshi Iwata,
  • Tomohi Ajima,
  • Tomohiro Kaneko,
  • Azusa Murata,
  • Nobuyuki Kagiyama,
  • Yoshifumi Fukushima,
  • Sakiko Miyazaki,
  • Tohru Minamino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7016
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract Patent ductus arteriosus‐associated infective endarteritis (PDA‐IE) is an extremely rare complication of PDA in recent years. In this report, we describe a case of PDA‐IE complicated by septic pulmonary embolism who was successfully treated with only antibiotics.

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