title: Successful surgical management of patients with infective endocarditis associated with acute neurologic deficits.
abstract: Subjects were 2 patients with neurologic deficits due to infective endocarditis. The first, a 30-year-old woman with acute ischemic stroke, was found to have vegetation from infective endocarditis as the embolic source. Two weeks after she experienced an acute ischemic stroke, we conducted elective cardiac surgery. The second, a 16-year-old girl with infective endocarditis, suffered a ruptured mycotic aneurysm in the left carotid system complicated by intracranial hemorrhage. We conducted a successful staged mitral valve replacement following craniotomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ishinomaki Red Cross Hospital, Miyagi, Japan.
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sawamura
authors.forename: Takeo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukuju
authors.forename: Sekinori
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kikuchi
authors.forename: Masakazu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kitahara
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Koichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tabayashi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000785:Aneurysm, Infected / Q000150:complications; D017542:Aneurysm, Ruptured / Q000150:complications; D002339:Carotid Arteries; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D020300:Intracranial Hemorrhages / Q000209:etiology*; D008943:Mitral Valve / Q000601:surgery; D020521:Stroke / Q000209:etiology*