title: [Successful treatment of the intracranial hemorrhage after the cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis].
abstract: We report an extremely rare case of a successful treatment of the intracranial hemorrhage after the cardiac surgery for infective endocarditis(IE). A 34-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a diagnosis of active IE due to Staphylococcus aureus, complicated with cerebral infarctions. Preoperative echocardiography showed mobile vegetations on both leaflets of the mitral valve with 15 and 6 mm diameters. Mitral valve repair was performed on hospital day 10. There were mobile vegetations on the A2 and P3. Five days after the cardiac surgery, brain magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) and angiography demonstrated intracranial hemorrhage due to the rupture of the intracranial aneurysm, which was urgently clipped. No neurological sequel has been noted since the successful treatment.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiac Center, Kitano Hosptal, Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Osaka, Japan.
authors: Yoshiaki
authors: Y
authors: Saji
authors: Jun
authors: J
authors: Iida
authors: Koji
authors: K
authors: Ueyama
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000601:surgery*