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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease endocarditis
Symptom C0085808|mycotic aneurysms
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PubMedID- 24470961 In a widely-referenced 1923 review of 217 cases of mycotic aneurysms (mostly associated with endocarditis), stengel and wolfert comment the organisms most frequently recovered from blood cultures from the heart valves or from aneurysms have been streptococci, mostly non-haemolytic types.2 another early review by revell et al.3 examines 24 cases of primary mycotic aneurysm from 1905-1939, of which 13 had a causative organism identified, 6 of which were streptococci (no further details available).
PubMedID- 23997788 Infective endocarditis with multiple mycotic aneurysms mimicking vasculitis: a case report.
PubMedID- 20811890 We present a case of a patient with two visceral mycotic aneurysms due to bacterial endocarditis, one located in right upper pole renal artery and the second in the splenic artery.
PubMedID- 19844748 These include acute infections (mycotic aneurysms due to septicaemia or endocarditis), chronic infections syphilis, tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), leprosy, congenital causes (aortic coarctation, middle aortic syndrome), hereditary disorders (marfan syndrome, neurofibromatosis, ehler–danlos syndrome), fibromuscular dysplasia and post-radiation therapy.

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