Medical Image of the Week: Septic Emboli

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 5:03AM
Rick Robbins, M.D. in bacterial endocarditis, endocarditis, septic emboli, splinter hemorrhage, sugungal hemorrhage

Figure 1. Photograph showing septic emboli to distal digits.

A 34 year old woman was admitted for a vasculitis workup after presenting with painful fingers, chest pain, and diffuse joint pain. Her blood cultures grew Staphyloccccus aureus and she was diagnosed with mitral and aortic valve endocarditis.  She had widespread joint involvement as well as a thoracic epidural abscess.

Jarrod Mosier, MD and Nathaniel Reyes, MD

Departments of Medicine and Emergency Medicine

University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Reference as: Mosier J, Reyes N. Medical image of the week: septic emboli. Southwest J Pulm Crit Care. 2013;6(4):170. PDF

Article originally appeared on Southwest Journal of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep (https://www.swjpcc.com/).