[A 35-year-old woman with fever, dyspnea, and pain in the left thigh].
A thirty-five years old woman during her twelfth pregnancy presented fever and pain at the left thigh. After cesarean delivery dyspnea added to the first two symptoms and pulmonary embolism was suspected. A clinical history revaluation suggested a diagnosis of infectious endocarditis and femoural osteomielitis due to a septic embolus.
Picardi
A
A
Università Campus Bio-Medico, Area di Medicina, Via E. Longoni, 85, 00155 Roma. a.picardi@unicampus.it
Navajas
F
F
De Iorio
F
F
Amicarelli
M
M
Spoto
S
S
De Galasso
L
L
Vespaciani Gentilucci
U
U
Scarlata
S
S
Zardi
E
E
Di Cuonzo
G
G
D000328:Adult; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013848:Thigh