[Endocarditis of the ventricular septum. Echocardiographic diagnosis].
A 5 year-old child presented with prolonged fever, severe impairment of general condition and a pleuro-pericardium effusion. Echocardiography revealed a "bell-clapper-like tumor" in each ventricle, developed from the ventricular septum. Presence of a staphylococcal sepsis and early disappearance of the echocardiographic signs after antibiotic treatment allowed for diagnosis of bacterial endocarditis with abscess of the ventricular septum. Sinusitis and IgA deficiency were later found to be also present.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006346:Heart Septum; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*
Endocardite du septum interventriculaire. Diagnostic échocardiographique.