Shimane Journal of Medical Science

Shimane University Faculty of Medicine
ISSN :0386-5959(in print)
ISSN :2433-2410(online)

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Shimane Journal of Medical Science 14
1996 発行

Extensive myocardial abscess complicated by myocardial infarction

Nakazawa, Yoshio
Matsuno, Yoshio
Toda, Hirotoshi
Yoshigane, Hideki
Morioka, Shigefumi
Moriyama, Katsutoshi
Harada, Takayuki
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A 65-year-old woman had an extensive myocardial abscess due to Streptococcus pyogenes complicated by an acute myocardial infarction. Fifteen other cases of isolated bacterial myocardial abscess following myocardial infarction have been reported. In these cases the abscesses were small and few in number. Our case had extensive and multiple myocardial abscesses in autopsy. Myocardial abscess was not diagnosed clinically. No primary focus of infection was found.