Two Cases of Pulmonic Valvular Vegetation and Pulmonary Infarction Associated with VSD

Park, Kum Soo; Shim, Won Heum; Choe, Kyung Hoon; Shim, Bong Sub

doi:10.4070/kcj.1985.15.3.519

Korean Circ J. 1985 Sep;15(3):519-525. Korean.
Published online Sep 30, 1985.
https://doi.org/10.4070/kcj.1985.15.3.519

Case Report

Two Cases of Pulmonic Valvular Vegetation and Pulmonary Infarction Associated with VSD

Kum Soo Park, M.D., Won Heum Shim, M.D., Kyung Hoon Choe, M.D. and Bong Sub Shim, M.D.

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Abstract

Bacterial endocarditis is a disease with protean manifestations whose presentation has recently changed greatly. Right-sided endocarditis associated with congenital heart lesions is now relatively less common.

Patients with ventricular septal defect are at risk for right-sided endocarditis, but its incidence is low in children and adolescents.

The organism is frequently a staphylococcus and the clinical course is dominated by septic pulmonary infarction and septicemia.

We reported two cases of pulmonic vegetation and pulmonary infarction associated VSD with brief review of literature.