Pulmonary Embolism Complicating Infective Endocarditis: A Pediatric Case Report
Imane Mezdaoui,
Fadoua Benbrahim,
Naima Elhafidi
et al.
Abstract:Aims: The study was to highlight pulmonary embolism that is considered a serious and potentially deadly disease. Its incidence in children is probably underestimated and cases reported in the literature, particularly in pediatrics, are rare.
Presentation of Case: we report the case of an 11-year-old male child diagnosed with pulmonary embolism complicating infective endocarditis. A thoracic CT angiography confirmed a distal pulmonary embolus, aneurysms of the lobar and segmental branches of the pulmonary… Show more
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