Intraparenchymal Brain Abscess in an Adult Male With Underlying Ebstein Anomaly and Cor Triatriatum Dexter.

JACC Case Rep

Department of Critical Care Medicine, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Falls Church, Virginia, USA.

Published: February 2021

A 21-year-old man presented with new-onset seizures and brain abscess. Echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging revealed underlying Ebstein anomaly, secundum atrial septal defect, and cor triatriatum dexter. The elevated right heart pressures shunting through the septal defect and transient bacteremia were the likely mechanisms for his presentation. ().

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