Abstract
Infective endocarditis is a very serious disease in which early and correct diagnosis and subsequent treatment are of major importance, or else the condition is associated with a high mortality rate. Our case report highlights the clinical presentation of abdominal pain and fever, findings that can certainly have a broad differential diagnosis; in our case, they were due to peripheral embolization in severe infective endocarditis of the aortic valve with an already developed abscess, which required urgent cardiac surgery.