Pinkney Jodian Amor, Nagassar Rajeev Peeyush, Roye-Green Karen Judith, Ferguson Trevor
Department of Medicine, University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica.
Department of Microbiology, The Eastern Regional Health Authority, Sangre Grande, Trinidad and Tobago.
BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Dec 17;2014:bcr2014207361. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2014-207361.
A previously healthy 27-year-old Jamaican man presented to the University Hospital of the West Indies with recurrent joint pain, remitting and relapsing fever, and shortness of breath. He was subsequently found to have Abiotrophia defectiva endocarditis. This was the first time this organism had been isolated at our institution. Despite culture directed antibiotics, his clinical course was quite severe with mitral regurgitation and congestive cardiac failure requiring mitral valve replacement. He recovered well postoperatively and is currently being followed at our outpatient cardiology clinic. This report highlights the severe presentation and often poor outcome associated with A. defectiva endocarditis and stresses that the outcome may be improved by early and appropriate surgical intervention.
一名既往健康的27岁牙买加男子因反复关节疼痛、弛张热和呼吸急促就诊于西印度群岛大学医院。随后发现他患有缺陷嗜养菌心内膜炎。这是该微生物首次在我们机构分离出来。尽管使用了针对培养结果的抗生素,但他的临床病程仍很严重,出现二尖瓣反流和充血性心力衰竭,需要进行二尖瓣置换术。他术后恢复良好,目前在我们的门诊心脏病诊所接受随访。本报告强调了缺陷嗜养菌心内膜炎的严重临床表现及通常较差的预后,并强调早期和适当的手术干预可能改善预后。