Bone infarcts in bacterial endocarditis.
Vertebral bone infarcts in two fatal cases of staphylococcic endocarditis are reported. It is suggested that they were embolic in nature, and that ischemia could be a reason for bone pain in infective endocarditis.
D000368:Aged; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007238:Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010020:Osteonecrosis / Q000473:pathology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections