Postabortion endocarditis is a rare complication that can manifest as a septic coronary artery embolism leading to fatal acute myocardial infarction.
May alert clinicians to rare postabortion endocarditis as septic AMI cause; leaves open incidence and prevention needs.
Significant medical complications after elective abortion are rare. However, complications do occur, and the emergency physician should always bear this in mind when evaluating a patient with significant illness who has recently undergone an elective abortion. Reported here is a case of postabortion endocarditis, manifesting as a septic coronary artery embolism, that led to a fatal acute myocardial infarction. [Caraballo V: Fatal myocardial infarction resulting from coronary artery septic embolism after abortion: Unusual cause and complication of endocarditis. Ann Emerg Med January 1997;29:175-177.]
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