Table 1.

Clinical summary of cases with periodontal disease-associated septic pulmonary embolism

Age	Sex	Local location	Culturea	Blood culture	Underlying disease	Immunocompromised	Prognosis	Reference
85	man	Periodontitis, temporal fossa abscess	Prevotella oris	Provimonas micra	Diabetes mellitus		alive	Present Case
56	man	Mandible and maxilla	Streptococcus intermedius	Negative	None		alive	[6]
50	man	Periodontal abscess	ND b	Negative	Osler-Weber-Rendu disease		alive	[7]
53	man	Periodontitis	ND	ND	None		alive	[8]
67	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Bronchial asthma	Prednisolone	alive	[8]
52	man	Periodontitis	ND	ND	Hypertensive nephropathy, renal transplant	Prednisolone, azathioprine	alive	[2]
70	woman	Periodontitis, pterygomandibular space abscess	ND	ND	None		alive	[9]
49	man	Periodontitis	ND	ND	Diabetes mellitus		alive	[10]
39	man	Periodontitis, periapical periodontitis	Negative	Negative	None		alive	[11]
24	woman	Periodontal abscess	ND	Gram positive cocci	Rheumatic mitral valve stenosis,congestive heart failure		alive	[12]
85	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Hypertension		alive	[13]
61	woman	Periodontitis, masticator space abscess	Streptococcus species	ND	Diabetes mellitus		alive	[14]
81	woman	Impacted tooth	ND	ND	Hypertension		alive	[15]
53	man	Chronic periodontitis	ND	Negative	Hypertension		alive	[5]
75	woman	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	None		alive	[5]
52	man	Chronic periodontitis	ND	Negative	None		alive	[5]
54	man	Periodontal abscess	ND	Negative	Hypertension		alive	[5]
64	man	Periodontitis, Periodontal abscess	ND	Negative	Hypertension, mitral regurgitation		alive	[5]
72	woman	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Hypertension		alive	[5]
65	man	Periodontal abscess	ND	Negative	None		alive	[5]
33	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	None		alive	[5]
57	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Hypertension		alive	[5]
71	man	Periodontal abscess	ND	Negative	Hypertension, diabetes mellitus		alive	[5]
62	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Hypertension		alive	[5]
68	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Diabetes mellitus		alive	[5]
52	man	Periodontitis	ND	ND	Hypertension		alive	[16]
74	man	Periodontitis	ND	ND	None		alive	[16]
55	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	None		alive	[16]
59	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Hypertension, Emphysema		alive	[16]
70	man	Periodontitis, periapical periodontitis	ND	Negative	Aortic aneurysm, Bladder stone		alive	[16]
65	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Cerebral infarction		alive	[16]
59	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	Hyperlipidemia		alive	[16]
47	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	None		alive	[16]
56	man	Periodontitis	ND	Negative	None		alive	[16]
59	man	Perimandibular abscess	Negative	Negative	Diabetes mellitus		alive	[17]
64	man	Periodontitis	Actinomyces species	Negative	Diabetes mellitus		alive	[3]
77	man	Periodontitis	ND	Peptostreptococcus species,Fusobacterium nucleatum	Diabetes mellitus		alive	[18]

^aculture finding of periodontal abscess

^bND, no data