Vegetation on patent foramen ovale presenting as a cryptogenic brain abscess

Int J Cardiol. 2008 Mar 14;124(3):e49-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.11.200. Epub 2007 Mar 13.

Abstract

This paper describes a case of 51-year-old man with a vegetation on his patent foramen ovale presenting with a cryptogenic brain abscess. He received surgical evacuation and was successfully managed with septal occlusion. This is the first reported case of cryptogenic brain abscess caused by a vegetation on a patent foramen ovale directly documented with transesophageal echocardiography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Brain Abscess / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Abscess / etiology*
  • Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal
  • Foramen Ovale, Patent / complications*
  • Foramen Ovale, Patent / diagnostic imaging
  • Foramen Ovale, Patent / surgery
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed