Abstract
Acute mitral valve endocarditis, presenting as a new murmur and haematuria, complicated pneumococcal meningitis in a 20-month-old child with a normal heart. Awareness of this rare complication of pneumococcaemia and its early diagnosis, using cross-sectional echocardiography, improves the clinical outcome of a condition associated with a high mortality.
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Gatzoulis, M.A., Winrow, A. & Kovar, I.Z. Acute endocarditis following pneumococcal meningitis. Eur J Pediatr 152, 323–324 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01956744
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01956744