Fatal myocardial microabscesses caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a burn patient
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 femal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Human Pathology: Case Reports |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214330014200241 |