Streptococcus agalactiae as a Primary Cause of Infective Endocarditis With Septic Emboli in an Undiagnosed Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Patient: An Encounter in a US-Based Safety-Net Hospital

Splenic infarct is a rare sequel of Streptococcus agalactiae infective endocarditis (IE). We report a case of a 43-year-old woman with multiple comorbidities diagnosed with a splenic infarct secondary to group B Streptococcus IE. The development of a splenic hematoma complicated the hospital course....

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Autores principales: Shrestha, Dhan B, Shtembari, Jurgen, Sowunmi, Leanne, Adhikari, Aarya, Joshi, Tilak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10198664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37213989
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37802
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author Shrestha, Dhan B
Shtembari, Jurgen
Sowunmi, Leanne
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Joshi, Tilak
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description Splenic infarct is a rare sequel of Streptococcus agalactiae infective endocarditis (IE). We report a case of a 43-year-old woman with multiple comorbidities diagnosed with a splenic infarct secondary to group B Streptococcus IE. The development of a splenic hematoma complicated the hospital course. This case highlights the less common etiology of IE and the potential complications.
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spelling pubmed-101986642023-05-20 Streptococcus agalactiae as a Primary Cause of Infective Endocarditis With Septic Emboli in an Undiagnosed Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Patient: An Encounter in a US-Based Safety-Net Hospital Shrestha, Dhan B Shtembari, Jurgen Sowunmi, Leanne Adhikari, Aarya Joshi, Tilak Cureus Cardiology Splenic infarct is a rare sequel of Streptococcus agalactiae infective endocarditis (IE). We report a case of a 43-year-old woman with multiple comorbidities diagnosed with a splenic infarct secondary to group B Streptococcus IE. The development of a splenic hematoma complicated the hospital course. This case highlights the less common etiology of IE and the potential complications. Cureus 2023-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10198664/ /pubmed/37213989 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37802 Text en Copyright © 2023, Shrestha et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Cardiology
Shrestha, Dhan B
Shtembari, Jurgen
Sowunmi, Leanne
Adhikari, Aarya
Joshi, Tilak
Streptococcus agalactiae as a Primary Cause of Infective Endocarditis With Septic Emboli in an Undiagnosed Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Patient: An Encounter in a US-Based Safety-Net Hospital
title Streptococcus agalactiae as a Primary Cause of Infective Endocarditis With Septic Emboli in an Undiagnosed Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Patient: An Encounter in a US-Based Safety-Net Hospital
title_full Streptococcus agalactiae as a Primary Cause of Infective Endocarditis With Septic Emboli in an Undiagnosed Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Patient: An Encounter in a US-Based Safety-Net Hospital
title_fullStr Streptococcus agalactiae as a Primary Cause of Infective Endocarditis With Septic Emboli in an Undiagnosed Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Patient: An Encounter in a US-Based Safety-Net Hospital
title_full_unstemmed Streptococcus agalactiae as a Primary Cause of Infective Endocarditis With Septic Emboli in an Undiagnosed Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Patient: An Encounter in a US-Based Safety-Net Hospital
title_short Streptococcus agalactiae as a Primary Cause of Infective Endocarditis With Septic Emboli in an Undiagnosed Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis Patient: An Encounter in a US-Based Safety-Net Hospital
title_sort streptococcus agalactiae as a primary cause of infective endocarditis with septic emboli in an undiagnosed rheumatic mitral stenosis patient: an encounter in a us-based safety-net hospital
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10198664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37213989
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37802
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