Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis-A Rare Case of Acute Libman-Sacks Endocarditis Complicated by Multiple Cerebral Infarcts: Case Report and Literature Review

Toshimitsu Kato; Noriaki Takama; Tomonari Harada; Norimichi Koitabashi; Masami Murakami; Tomonobu Abe; Masahiko Kurabayashi

doi:10.1016/j.case.2020.09.005

Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis-A Rare Case of Acute Libman-Sacks Endocarditis Complicated by Multiple Cerebral Infarcts: Case Report and Literature Review

CASE (Phila). 2020 Oct 18;4(6):507-511. doi: 10.1016/j.case.2020.09.005. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Authors

Toshimitsu Kato¹, Noriaki Takama², Tomonari Harada², Norimichi Koitabashi², Masami Murakami¹, Tomonobu Abe³, Masahiko Kurabayashi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Laboratory, Gunma University Hospital, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.
³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.

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Keywords: Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome; Libman-Sacks endocarditis; Multiple cerebral infarction; Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis; Systemic lupus erythematosus.

Publication types

Case Reports