Acute endocarditis following pneumococcal meningitis.
Acute mitral valve endocarditis, presenting as a new murmur and haematuria, complicated pneumococcal meningitis in a 20-month-old child with a normal heart. Awareness of this rare complication of pneumococcaemia and its early diagnosis, using cross-sectional echocardiography, improves the clinical outcome of a condition associated with a high mortality.
Gatzoulis
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Department of Child Health, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
Winrow
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Kovar
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D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008586:Meningitis, Pneumococcal / Q000150:complications*; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*