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Case Reports
. 1993 Mar;192(5):223-5.

[Endocarditis due to Candida albicans with peripheral arterial embolism and a cerebral mycotic aneurysm in an IV drug addict]

[Article in Spanish]
J A Hernández Hernández  1 , M González-Moreno Portugal, J M Casan Cava, A Aloy Duch, J M Llibre Codina, J A Capdevilla Morell
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Case Reports

[Endocarditis due to Candida albicans with peripheral arterial embolism and a cerebral mycotic aneurysm in an IV drug addict]

[Article in Spanish]
J A Hernández Hernández et al. Rev Clin Esp. 1993 Mar.

Abstract

Endocarditis due to Candida albicans (EC) is a rare cause of endocarditis in IV drug addicts (IVDA). Its diagnostic is usually difficult and high peripheral embolization is characteristic, and could affect big vessels. The case of a female patients (IVDA) 21 years old is discussed, who showed bilateral iliofemoral embolism and cerebral hemorrhage due to mycotic aneurysm breakage in a EC. These two complications appeared during an EC episode are exceptional. We insist in the importance of the echographic images in the suspicion diagnosis of EC.

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