An Unusual Case of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium. It has been identified as a contaminant during open-heart surgery. It contaminates water in heater-cooler units that then become aerosolized, contaminating the surgical field. We report a 56-year-old male who presented with cultu...

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Autores principales: Provenzano, Noelle, Boris, James, Nelluri, Bharghava, Berman, Lorin, Singer, Raymond, You, Hojoon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9270098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35812612
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25735
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author Provenzano, Noelle
Boris, James
Nelluri, Bharghava
Berman, Lorin
Singer, Raymond
You, Hojoon
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description Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium. It has been identified as a contaminant during open-heart surgery. It contaminates water in heater-cooler units that then become aerosolized, contaminating the surgical field. We report a 56-year-old male who presented with culture-negative endocarditis six years after his initial open-heart surgery.
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spelling pubmed-92700982022-07-09 An Unusual Case of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Provenzano, Noelle Boris, James Nelluri, Bharghava Berman, Lorin Singer, Raymond You, Hojoon Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Mycobacterium chimaera is a slow-growing nontuberculous mycobacterium. It has been identified as a contaminant during open-heart surgery. It contaminates water in heater-cooler units that then become aerosolized, contaminating the surgical field. We report a 56-year-old male who presented with culture-negative endocarditis six years after his initial open-heart surgery. Cureus 2022-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9270098/ /pubmed/35812612 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.25735 Text en Copyright © 2022, Provenzano 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.
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