If an oral abscess was lanced, and left untreated, could the resultant infection cause endocarditis?

Question:

A death certificate, dated 1920, staes cause of death to be 'endocarditis resulting from erysipelas'
Three days prior, an oral abscess is lanced.
Would the resultant infection cause erysipelas?
Would the resultant infection cause endocarditis?

Answers:
Standard treatment for acute staph infection in 1920 was lancing the abscess and hoping the infection healed after draining out the pus. Sometimes this worked and sometimes it didn't. In a very famous and highly publicized similar situation President Calvin Coolidge's son died in the White House from a lanced toe infected with staph aureus in 1924. If the infection didn't come out when the abscess was lanced, the infection would turn inward causing sepsis and death. I think that is what happened in the death certificate you mention. The person died from massive sepsis with the endocarditis being a likely final cause of death.

Other Answers:
i think so, definetly. studies show that the two are linked.

yes Yes .Infection in the dentition has a direct line to the heart

Yes, and will lead to death. Get treated.

Erysipelas is a type of cellulitis (skin infection) generally caused by group A streptococci. Erysipelas may affect both children and adults. . An erysipelas skin lesion typically has a raised border that is sharply demarcated from . indurated), swollen, and warm.

PERSONALLY- since we know abscesses kill people when they go untreated. i am thinking that IF the abscess did have something to do with the death that it was not because it had been lanced but the problem had been already in progress

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If an oral abscess was lanced, and left untreated, could the resultant infection cause endocarditis?

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