A case of native valve endocarditis caused by Burkholderia cepacia without predisposing factors

BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis is rarely caused by Burkholderia cepacia. This infection is known to occur particularly in immunocompromised hosts, intravenous heroin users, and in patients with prosthetic valve replacement. Most patients with Burkholderia cepacia endocarditis usually need surgic...

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Autores principales: Ki, Hyun Kyun, Kim, Sung Hea, Han, Seong Woo, Cheong, Hae Suk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3112426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-114
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author Ki, Hyun Kyun
Kim, Sung Hea
Han, Seong Woo
Cheong, Hae Suk
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description BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis is rarely caused by Burkholderia cepacia. This infection is known to occur particularly in immunocompromised hosts, intravenous heroin users, and in patients with prosthetic valve replacement. Most patients with Burkholderia cepacia endocarditis usually need surgical treatment in addition to antimicrobial treatment. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we report the case of a patient who developed Burkholderia cepacia-induced native valve endocarditis with consequent cerebral involvement without any predisposing factors; she was successfully treated by antimicrobial agents only. CONCLUSION: In this report, we also present literature review of relevant cases.
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spelling pubmed-31124262011-06-12 A case of native valve endocarditis caused by Burkholderia cepacia without predisposing factors Ki, Hyun Kyun Kim, Sung Hea Han, Seong Woo Cheong, Hae Suk BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis is rarely caused by Burkholderia cepacia. This infection is known to occur particularly in immunocompromised hosts, intravenous heroin users, and in patients with prosthetic valve replacement. Most patients with Burkholderia cepacia endocarditis usually need surgical treatment in addition to antimicrobial treatment. CASE PRESENTATION: Here, we report the case of a patient who developed Burkholderia cepacia-induced native valve endocarditis with consequent cerebral involvement without any predisposing factors; she was successfully treated by antimicrobial agents only. CONCLUSION: In this report, we also present literature review of relevant cases. BioMed Central 2011-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3112426/ /pubmed/21548997 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-114 Text en Copyright ©2011 Ki et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cheong, Hae Suk
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title_fullStr A case of native valve endocarditis caused by Burkholderia cepacia without predisposing factors
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title_short A case of native valve endocarditis caused by Burkholderia cepacia without predisposing factors
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3112426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21548997
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-11-114
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