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Acute endocarditis following pneumococcal meningitis
M A Gatzoulis1, A Winrow, I Z Kovar
1Department of Child Health, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK.
European Journal of Pediatrics
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
Acute mitral valve endocarditis, presenting as a new murmur and haematuria, complicated pneumococcal meningitis in a 20-month-old child with a normal heart. Awareness of this rare complication of pneumococcaemia and its early diagnosis, using cross-sectional echocardiography, improves the clinical outcome of a condition associated with a high mortality.