title: Coronary stent bacterial infection with multiple organ septic emboli.
abstract: We describe an 80-year-old patient who developed Staphylococcus aureus septicemia several days after the implantation of a double stent in the proximal and mid-left anterior descending artery. The infection was complicated by multiple abscesses in the lungs and liver, as well as by bilateral bacterial endophthalmitis requiring right vitrectomy. Long-term antibiotic treatment was successful. Rarity notwithstanding, heightened awareness of this potential complication of a common cardiac procedure is important since diagnosis and immediate therapy are mandatory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine A, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 6 Weizmann Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoffman
authors.forename: Roni
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Baruch
authors.forename: Eli
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mittelman
authors.forename: Galit
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Aviram
authors.forename: Yardena
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Siegman-Igra