Brucella Endocarditis in Prosthetic Valves

CONFLICT OF INTEREST: none declared. INTRODUCTION: Brucella endocarditis (BE) is a rare but severe and potentially lethal manifestation of brucellosis. Pre-existing valves lesions and prosthetic valves (PV) are favorable for BE. CASE REPORT: We represent the case of a 46-year-old man who was treated...

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Autores principales: Mehanic, Snjezana, Mulabdic, Velida, Baljic, Rusmir, Hadzovic-Cengic, Meliha, Pinjo, Fikret, Hadziosmanovic, Vesna, Topalovic, Jasna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2012
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3829087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24493988
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/msm.2012.24.s11-s12
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Sumario:CONFLICT OF INTEREST: none declared. INTRODUCTION: Brucella endocarditis (BE) is a rare but severe and potentially lethal manifestation of brucellosis. Pre-existing valves lesions and prosthetic valves (PV) are favorable for BE. CASE REPORT: We represent the case of a 46-year-old man who was treated at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Center of Sarajevo University, as blood culture positive (Brucella melitensis) mitral and aortic PV endocarditis. He was treated with combined anti-brucella and cardiac therapy. Surgical intervention was postponed due to cardiac instability. Four months later he passed away. Surgery was not performed.

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