Sullivan Abigayle, Shrestha Pragya, Basnet Sijan, Herb Ronald, Zagorski Emily
Department of Internal Medicine, Reading Hospital-Tower Health System, PA, USA.
SAGE Open Med Case Rep. 2020 Jun 30;8:2050313X20936952. doi: 10.1177/2050313X20936952. eCollection 2020.
We report a case of an elderly Caucasian male with past medical history of dextrocardia with situs inversus totalis, polymyalgia rheumatica, history of cryptogenic stroke, and severe mitral regurgitation with mitral valve prolapse, who presented with acute heart failure symptoms, including severe dyspnea on exertion and worsening lower extremity edema in the setting of immunosuppression with steroids for a year-old diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica. One month prior to this presentation, the patient suffered a transient ischemic attack and during the workup, his transthoracic echocardiography showed myxomatous degeneration of posterior mitral leaflet, partially flail, with severe mitral regurgitation, which required mitral valve replacement. Genome sequencing of mitral valve anterior leaflet pathology detected as a causal agent of culture-negative endocarditis. The patient was treated with 6 weeks of ceftriaxone and ampicillin-sulbactam and further continued trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for 1 year. He continued antibiotic treatment with resolution of shortness of breath along with arthralgia.
我们报告了一例老年白种男性病例,其既往病史包括右位心伴全内脏转位、风湿性多肌痛、隐源性卒中病史以及严重二尖瓣反流伴二尖瓣脱垂。该患者因一年前诊断为风湿性多肌痛而接受类固醇免疫抑制治疗,出现急性心力衰竭症状,包括劳力性重度呼吸困难和下肢水肿加重。此次就诊前一个月,患者发生短暂性脑缺血发作,在检查过程中,经胸超声心动图显示二尖瓣后叶黏液瘤样变性,部分脱垂,伴有严重二尖瓣反流,需要进行二尖瓣置换术。二尖瓣前叶病理的基因组测序检测到 作为培养阴性心内膜炎的病原体。患者接受了 6 周的头孢曲松和氨苄西林 - 舒巴坦治疗,并继续服用甲氧苄啶 - 磺胺甲恶唑 1 年。随着呼吸急促和关节痛的缓解,他继续接受抗生素治疗。