Isolated myocardial abscess causing coronary artery rupture and fatal hemopericardium.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We report a rare case of cardiac tamponade caused by hemopericardium secondary to erosion and rupture of a coronary artery by an adjacent solitary myocardial abscess. The resulting tamponade led to the sudden death of this 46-year-old man. Antemortem blood culture and the postmortem microscopic examination of the myocardial abscess revealed the causative agent to be Staphylococcus aureus. Hemopericardium due to ventricular wall rupture secondary to a myocardial abscess has been infrequently reported, but, to our knowledge, only one other report of hemopericardium due to coronary artery rupture related to myocardial abscess has been published.
Medical subject headings
- Abscess
- Cardiomyopathies
- Coronary Disease
- Pericardial Effusion
- Staphylococcal Infections