{"id":5147,"date":"2013-04-08T10:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T09:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/myocardial-abscess-in-a-calf\/"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:44:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:44:21","slug":"myocardial-abscess-in-a-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/myocardial-abscess-in-a-calf\/","title":{"rendered":"Myocardial abscess in a calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The differential diagnosis of such a lesion should include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neoplasia<\/li>\n<li>Inflammatory lesions such as:\n<ul>\n<li>An abscess.<\/li>\n<li>Granulomatous type lesions caused by parasites (cysticercosis, for instance) or even TB (although the location makes it unlikely to be an option).<\/li>\n<li>A more remote option would be a traumatic reticulo-pericarditis, but it would have been associated with inflammation of the pericardium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking at the images it can ne seen that when cut the lesion has purulent content, so the a <strong>bacterial etiology <\/strong>should be considered in the first place. Pyogenic bacteria arriving to the heart though a hematogenous route. This is an unusual location for an abscess.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1617\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1617\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6545\" alt=\"The finger points to the whitish nodule that protrudes into the ventricular cavity.\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-2-800x600.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The finger points to the whitish nodule that protrudes into the ventricular cavity.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1618\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1618\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6547\" alt=\"When cut, the lesion is filled up with purulent material.\" src=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-1-800x600.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sesc.cat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/SESC-041-13-1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">When cut, the lesion is filled up with purulent material.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The differential diagnosis of such a lesion should include: Neoplasia Inflammatory lesions such as: An abscess. Granulomatous type lesions caused by parasites (cysticercosis, for instance) or even TB (although the location makes it unlikely to be an option). A more remote option would be a traumatic reticulo-pericarditis, but it would have been associated with inflammation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,247],"tags":[394,397,392],"class_list":["post-5147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bovine-2","category-heart-bovine-2","tag-heart-en","tag-infectious-en","tag-thoracic-cavity-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sesc.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}