Fatal myocardial microabscesses caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a burn patient

• Main Authors: Hsiang-Wei Huang (Author), Morgan Cowan (Author), Jamil Matthews (Author), Ming-Tseh Lin (Author), Stephen Milner (Author), Marc Halushka (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...