Mohammed Boutaybi, Othmane Doudouh, Charmake Darar Assoweh, Oussama El Abbassi, Nabila Ismaili, Noha El Ouafi
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but serious disease, and despite improvements in diagnostic and therapeutic tools, it remains associated with high mortality. It can develop in a healthy heart, but most commonly in underlying heart disease. The authors discuss a 34-year-old patient, who has presented for 4 months with generalized asthenia, fever, and chills, without any notion of chest pain, arthralgias. On admission, the patient was conscious, hemodynamically, and respiratory stable, the temperature was 38...
June 2023: Annals of Medicine and Surgery