A case of adult patent ductus arteriosus‐associated infective endarteritis who was successfully treated with only antibiotics

• Published in: Clinical case reports Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. e7016 - n/a
• Main Authors: Kanai, Akira, Chikata, Yuichi, Iwata, Hiroshi, Ajima, Tomohi, Kaneko, Tomohiro, Murata, Azusa, Kagiyama, Nobuyuki, Fukushima, Yoshifumi, Miyazaki, Sakiko, Minamino, Tohru
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01-03-2023; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Antibiotics; Cardiac arrhythmia; Case Report; Case reports; Congenital diseases; Consent; Coronary vessels; Editing; Endocarditis; Fever; Heart; Hemodynamics; infective endarteritis; Oral hygiene; patent ductus arteriosus; Patients; Pulmonary arteries; Pulmonary embolisms; pulmonary septic embolism; Supervision; Tomography; Vegetation; Veins & arteries; Writing; infective endarteritis; pulmonary septic embolism; patent ductus arteriosus
• ISSN: 2050-0904; 2050-0904
• DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.7016

Patent ductus arteriosus‐associated infective endarteritis (PDA‐IE) is an extremely rare complication of PDA in recent years. In this report, we describe a case of PDA‐IE complicated by septic pulmonary embolism who was successfully treated with only antibiotics.
In adults, infectious endarteritis (IE) is an extremely rare complication of PDA. Increasing awareness for IE as a complication of PDA as well as highlighting the importance of oral hygiene, particularly in adult individuals with unclosed PDA, are needed.