title: Right-sided acute suppurative thyroiditis caused by infectious endocarditis.
abstract: Acute suppurative thyroiditis is a rare disorder that is mostly found in the left lobe of the thyroid gland of children due to congenital patency of the pyriform sinus fistula. Here, we report a 61-year-old man with acute right-sided suppurative thyroiditis without pyriform sinus fistula. He also showed infectious hip arthritis, spondylitis and Roth's spots. He presented with heart failure and was diagnosed with infectious endocarditis by sequential transesophageal echocardiography. A replacement with a prosthetic valve was performed and cured him. It is important to recognize that infectious endocarditis can be a focus of acute suppurative thyroiditis.
authors: Department of Metabolic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan.
authors: Kana
authors: K
authors: Inoue
authors: Junji
authors: J
authors: Kozawa
authors: Tohru
authors: T
authors: Funahashi
authors: Yukiko
authors: Y
authors: Nakata
authors: Eri
authors: E
authors: Mitsui
authors: Tetsuhiro
authors: T
authors: Kitamura
authors: Norikazu
authors: N
authors: Maeda
authors: Ken
authors: K
authors: Kishida
authors: Michio
authors: M
authors: Otsuki
authors: Kohei
authors: K
authors: Okita
authors: Hiromi
authors: H
authors: Iwahashi
authors: Akihisa
authors: A
authors: Imagawa
authors: Iichiro
authors: I
authors: Shimomura
mesh_terms: D004698:Endocarditis, Subacute Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013969:Thyroiditis, Suppurative / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000628:therapy