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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 91-93 |
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A case of left-sided infective endocarditis in intravenous drug abuser with mycotic aneurysm and myocardial infarction with nonobstructive coronaries
Nitin Rustogi, Suguna Kari
Department of Medicine, ABVIMS and RML Hospital, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Nitin Rustogi
Department of Medicine, ABVIMS and RML Hospital, New Delhi - 110 001
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jopcs.jopcs_8_21
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Left-sided Infective endocarditis (IE) is an uncommon occurrence in intravenous drug users (IVDU) in clinical practice. This case describes a 28-year-old male IVDU who presented with abdominal pain, fever, and breathlessness and diagnosed with aortic valve IE. This case highlights the possibility of left-sided IE in IVDU and rare complications of ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction with Non-obstructive Coronaries and Mycotic Aneurysm (MA) associated with it.
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