Diagnostic case study: Fever and patchy infiltrates: Pulmonary septic emboli

Septic pulmonary embolism in Korea: Microbiology, clinicoradiologic features, and treatment outcome

“…5,12,17 The most common causative organism in the present study was Klebsiella pneumoniae in contrast to Staphylococcus aureus in previous reports. 5,12,17 For the primary infection sites, dental, perianal, peritonsillar, and liver abscesses and pneumonia were identified in this study, which are different from previous reports 5,10,12,17 where they were uncommonly detected. SPE due to odontogenic infection is considered rare, although this has been reported more frequently in Japan.…”

Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis and septic pulmonary embolism after septic abortion

“…The rate of embolic events declines with time after initiation of antimicrobial treatment [2]. Septic pulmonary emboli usually present as fever, hemoptysis and patchy infiltrates on chest X-ray [15], and can progress to abscesses, empyema and bronchopleural fistula. A computed tomography scan can diagnose septic pulmonary emboli as multiple peripheral nodules, cavitations or wedge shaped peripheral lesions [16,17].…”