Cryptogenic HACEK CNS Abscess in Otherwise Healthy Patient with Patent Foramen Ovale (P8-13.004)

To describe a case of a young, immunocompetent male who presented with intractable headaches. He was found to have a cryptogenic brain abscess with uncommon organisms on culture (HACEK spectrum and Actinomyces). Aside from patent foramen ovale, no evidence of endocarditis was found, nor other predisposing cardiac or dental disease.