Pulmonary complications of infective endocarditis: a case report

Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, The 8th International Medical Congress for Students and Young Doctors, September 24-26, 2020Background. Infective endocarditis (IE) is a severe septic disease, with the most frequent localization of the microbial graft on native or prosthetic valves, which causes serious complications and high mortality. The annual incidence of IE is 3-10 cases per 100,000 persons, with an increasing tendency in elderly patients, whereas the overall mortality, according to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates, is 1 per 100,000 persons, representing 65,000 deaths in 2013 [1,2]. The high mortality of patients with IE is mostly caused by cardiovascular, pulmonary and renal complications. Pulmonary complications occur in 10-65% of cases, more commonly in patients with right sided IE: septic pulmonary embolism, pulmonary infarction, pneumonia, pulmonary abscesses, pleural effusion, empyema, pneumothorax and fungal aneurysms of the pulmonary arteries [3&#93]