Infective endocarditis complicating hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: an unusual mural pattern.
A patient with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) and an unusual right ventricular mural pattern of endocarditis that clinically mimicked a neoplasm is presented. To our knowledge, this is the first report of right ventricular mural endocarditis complicating HOCM.
Fyfe
Billie
B
Department of Pathology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA. fyfekibs@undnj.edu
Ianosi-Irimie
Monica
M
Motavalli
Lisa
L
D000328:Adult; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000150:complications; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004452:Echocardiography; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous