TY - JOUR
T1 - Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis Associated With Crohn Disease
AU - Uchida, Wataru
AU - Mutsuga, Masato
AU - Ito, Hideki
AU - Oshima, Hideki
AU - Usui, Akihiko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
PY - 2018/5
Y1 - 2018/5
N2 - This report describes an atypical case of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis in a mitral valve. The patient suffered repeated emboli after achieving remission of Crohn disease in the acute phase. Echocardiography revealed mitral valve leaflet and subvalvular thickening. This initially was considered indicative of infective endocarditis or a cardiac tumor; however, pathologic and laboratory examinations showed nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis without antiphospholipid syndrome or a malignant tumor. We report a rare case of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis complicated with Crohn disease.
AB - This report describes an atypical case of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis in a mitral valve. The patient suffered repeated emboli after achieving remission of Crohn disease in the acute phase. Echocardiography revealed mitral valve leaflet and subvalvular thickening. This initially was considered indicative of infective endocarditis or a cardiac tumor; however, pathologic and laboratory examinations showed nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis without antiphospholipid syndrome or a malignant tumor. We report a rare case of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis complicated with Crohn disease.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.12.005
DO - 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.12.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 29305852
AN - SCOPUS:85045640184
SN - 0003-4975
VL - 105
SP - e199-e201
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
IS - 5
ER -