Abstract
Bacteremia- or sepsis-associated myocardial abscess is often an incidental postmortem diagnosis in patients who die of overwhelming septicemia. Myocardial abscess is more rarely the immediate cause of death as a consequence of abscess rupture or the cause of arrhythmia. We report a 66-year-old female who succumbed to sudden cardiac death with a hemodynamically stable methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia, while in recovery after an accidental thermal burn. Autopsy revealed extensive myocardial abscesses and an abscess in the pineal gland. Myocardial microabscesses should be considered a rare cause of sudden cardiac death in patients with hemodynamically stable MRSA bacteremia.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 10-12 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Human Pathology: Case Reports |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2014 |
Keywords
- Burn
- MRSA
- Myocardial abscesses
- Sudden cardiac
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine