Postoperative intramyocardial abscess caused by mucormycosis.
We report the case of an intramyocardial abscess caused by mucormycosis that arose after cardiac operation. Several causes of immunosuppression in a 71-year-old woman were exacerbated after she underwent coronary revascularization. Before she died of multiple organ system dysfunction, a variety of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, as well as complete heart block, developed, but the cause was not clear until autopsy revealed a large septal myocardial abscess due to mucormycosis.
Department of Pathology, St. Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Massachusetts.
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Balaguer
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Soto
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Perry
J M
JM
Moran
D000038:Abscess / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D000368:Aged; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000382:microbiology*