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• TITLE: A palpable tender abdominal mass in a patient with endocarditis on antibiotics for 5 weeks

  AUTHORS: Stephanie L. Smeltzer, Lourdes C. Corman

  KEYWORDS: Mycotic Aneurysm; Pseudoaneurysm; Enterococcal Endocarditis

  JOURNAL NAME: Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, Vol.2 No.1, March 25, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Mycotic aneurysms are a rare finding in the post-antibiotic era but must still be considered as a cause of abdominal pain in a patient with endocarditis. We present a case of a 47-year-old man with a history of IV drug use and a prior episode of endocarditis who developed a mycotic aneurysm while hospitalized on IV antibiotic therapy for aortic valve endocarditis. Due to their life-threatening character and often lack of evident clinical picture, mycotic aneurysms should still remain in high suspicion for a patient with abdominal pain in the setting of endocarditis.