A rare complication of infective endocarditis: left main coronary artery embolization resulting in sudden death.
Whilst systemic septic embolization is a common complication of infective endocarditis, a second, less frequently reported, complication is the embolization of vegetative material to the coronary arteries that rarely results in acute myocardial infarction and sudden death. The case is presented of an acute cardiac death in a patient with aortic valve endocarditis, caused by acute occlusion of the left main coronary artery with vegetative material.
Zeller
Lior
L
Department of Medicine D, Soroka University Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. zellerl@bgu.ac.il
Flusser
Daniel
D
Shaco-Levy
Ruthy
R
Giladi
Hili
H
Merkin
Miri S
MS
Liel-Cohen
Noah
N
D000328:Adult; D054059:Coronary Occlusion / Q000209:etiology*; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal; D004617:Embolism / Q000209:etiology*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans