Case We present the case of a 52-year-old man with hepatitis C and a history of intravenous drug abuse, admitted to the infectology department with spondylodiscitis and psoas muscle abscess. Staphylococcus aureus was isolated from blood, urine, and spinal fluid cultures, and the transthoracic echocardiogram was negative for vegetation, abscess, or fistula. The transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) showed a filamentous and mobile structure attached to the atrial surface of the mitral valve (MV), and a diagnosis of infective endocarditis was presumed. […]

Case Report Mitral valve aneurysms (MVA) are uncommon and usually develop acutely in the setting of infective endocarditis (IE). MVA as a late complication of IE in a patient with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is rather unusual, raising considerations regarding the role of the infectious process and the hemodynamic conditions inherent to the cardiomyopathy. , We present a case report of a patient with HCM and a ruptured aneurysm of the mitral valve (MV) leaflet, secondary to previously treated IE. […]