Rare but Not Infrequent: Infective Endocarditis Caused by Abiotrophia defectiva

المؤلفون المشاركون

Chowdhury, Sonia
German, Matthew L.

المصدر

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases

العدد

المجلد 2018، العدد 2018 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2018)، ص ص. 1-3، 3ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2018-03-26

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

3

التخصصات الرئيسية

الأمراض

الملخص EN

Endocarditis (IE) is defined by an infection of a native or prosthetic heart valve, the mural endocardium, or an indwelling cardiac device.

Although viridan-group streptococci (VGS) and Staphylococci species have collectively been considered as the most common cause of endocarditis, uncommon pathogens may also lead to the disease with significant morbidity and mortality.

Abiotrophia defectiva, a nutritionally variant streptococci (NVS), is a virulent bacterium that preferentially affects endovascular structure and is implicated in many culture-negative endocarditis with dreadful complications such as heart failure, septic embolization, and valve destruction.

Here, we report a case of a 60-year-old male patient, with a past medical history significant for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, who was incidentally found to have mitral valve vegetative mass with an uncommon agent, A.

defectiva.

The patient was successfully treated with antimicrobial therapy.

The objective of this article is to describe the possibility of uncommon cause of common diseases and raises awareness of infective endocarditis caused by A.

defectiva among clinicians and microbiologists.

Early and proper identification of this pathogen is important to achieve a better outcome.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Chowdhury, Sonia& German, Matthew L.. 2018. Rare but Not Infrequent: Infective Endocarditis Caused by Abiotrophia defectiva. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144562

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Chowdhury, Sonia& German, Matthew L.. Rare but Not Infrequent: Infective Endocarditis Caused by Abiotrophia defectiva. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144562

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Chowdhury, Sonia& German, Matthew L.. Rare but Not Infrequent: Infective Endocarditis Caused by Abiotrophia defectiva. Case Reports in Infectious Diseases. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-3.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1144562

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-1144562