A Leg Purpura Revealing an Infectious Endocarditis |Biomedgrid

Infectious endocarditis (IE) is a rare infection of one or more cardiac valves, by a microorganism, most often bacterial, more rarely by intracellular germs or yeasts, it is a sepsis grafted on a preexisting heart disease or in a healthy subject. It is suspected in a patient with heart symptoms with fever [1]. IE is a rare disease with a poor prognosis. Dermatological lesions are infrequent and neglected by non-dermatologist practitioners. We report a case of IE revealed by a purpura in the legs.