Postoperative intramyocardial abscess caused by mucormycosis.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
We report the case of an intramyocardial abscess caused by mucormycosis that arose after cardiac operation. Several causes of immunosuppression in a 71-year-old woman were exacerbated after she underwent coronary revascularization. Before she died of multiple organ system dysfunction, a variety of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, as well as complete heart block, developed, but the cause was not clear until autopsy revealed a large septal myocardial abscess due to mucormycosis.
Medical subject headings
- Abscess
- Cardiomyopathies
- Mucormycosis
- Postoperative Complications