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A case of life-threatening valvulitis mimicking infective endocarditis in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis
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- Issue Date
- 2020-05
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Citation
- Cardiology in the Young, Vol.30 No.5, pp.728-731
- Abstract
- Differential diagnosis of an intracardiac mass is difficult when detected only by echocardiography before a biopsy is completed. However, treatment cannot be postponed until the biopsy results are obtained. We report the case of a 12-year-old girl who presented with an intracardiac mass in the mitral valve mimicking infective endocarditis and severe mitral regurgitation. The mass was finally diagnosed as valvulitis associated with systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis, which was complicated with macrophage activation syndrome. After careful exclusion of acute infectious disease, we started steroid pulse therapy and administered tocilizumab to treat the cytokine storm before performing the surgery. Finally, we performed mass excision and mitral valve replacement after immunosuppressant therapy.
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- 1047-9511
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