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Infectious Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Alkan ,
Natalio Cristal  and
Esther Paran
Michael Alkan*
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease and Intensive Coronary Care Units, Soroka University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Natalio Cristal
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease and Intensive Coronary Care Units, Soroka University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Esther Paran
Affiliation:
Infectious Disease and Intensive Coronary Care Units, Soroka University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
*
Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka Medical Center, P.O. Box 151, Beer-Sheva 84101, Israel
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Abstract

Four cases of purulent complications in the heart following acute myocardial infarction are described. Fever occurred during the first week after coronary occlusion. In one case thrombophlebitis at an infusion site was followed by purulent pericarditis. One patient had an infected mural thrombus with peripheral septic embolic, and two suffered from streptococcal endocarditis. The association between these infections and recent acute myocardial infarction could be related to tissue necrosis and local thrombosis, but the increasing risk of bacteremia following invasive monitoring procedures in these patients is a risk factor that should not be ignored.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , April 1986 , pp. 220 - 222
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1986

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