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Fatal hemopericardium due to ruptured solitary myocardial abscess unassociated with infective endocarditis
R R Winek1, N M Schwenk, W D Edwards
1Division of Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
The American Journal of Cardiovascular Pathology
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A case is presented of hemopericardium and sudden death due to rupture of a solitary myocardial abscess in an elderly woman with cirrhosis and mild urosepsis. If suspected clinically, such myocardial abscesses may be detectable by noninvasive tomographic cardiac imaging.