Infective endocarditis or myxoma? Description of a patient with new diagnosis of congestive heart failure

Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2012 Jun;78(2):107-8. doi: 10.4081/monaldi.2012.132.

Abstract

Infective endocarditis (IE) is an inflammatory disease which interests heart endothelium and mostly heart valves. IE is not a uniform disease, but presents in a variety of different forms that makes the diagnosis difficult. Echocardiography is a crucial diagnostic tool for the diagnosis, especially in those patients who have no typical symptoms as in the case here presented, in which the possibility of a myxoma was also considered.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal*
  • Endocarditis / diagnosis*
  • Endocarditis / diagnostic imaging
  • Female
  • Heart Failure
  • Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Mitral Valve / pathology
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / diagnosis
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / pathology
  • Mitral Valve Insufficiency / surgery
  • Myxoma / diagnosis*