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Ann Thorac Surg 1994;58:1760-1762
© 1994 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Postoperative intramyocardial abscess caused by mucormycosis

Jorge M. Balaguer, MD*, Enrique Soto, MD, Donna Perry, NP, John M. Moran, MD

Division of Cardiothoraracic Surgery and Department of Pathology, St. Vincent Hospital and University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts USA

Accepted for publication April 15, 1994.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Balaguer, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis St. Boston, MA 02115.

We report the case of an intramyocardial abscess caused by mucormycosis thai arose after cardiac operation. Several causes of immunosuppressiun in a 71-year-old woman were exacerbated after she underwent coronary revascularization. Before she died of multiple organ system dysfunction, a variety of supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias, as well as complete heart block, developed, but the cause was not clear until autopsy revealed a large septal myocardial abscess due to mucormycosis.




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