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Myocardial abscess in a patient with AIDS-related complex: pericardial patch repair
T M Egan1, A Maitland, C Sinave
1Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|March 1, 1990
Abstract:
A hemophiliac with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related complex was seen with sepsis related to a ventricular septal abscess. The abscess was debrided and the septum was patched with a single layer of autologous pericardium. The patient recovered and survived 6 months before dying of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. At autopsy, the septal patch was well healed with no evidence of recurrent endocarditis.