Al Zoubi Moamen, Cheng Joyce, Dontaraju Venkate S, Evans Colin E, Spier Addie B
Department of Infectious Disease, Mercyhealth, Rockford, IL, USA.
Department of Internal Medicine, Mercyhealth, Rockford, IL, USA.
IDCases. 2021 Jun 16;25:e01200. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01200. eCollection 2021.
Endocarditis and cardiac device infection due to is a rare entity in the hospital settings. We report a case of pacemaker infection and native valve endocarditis due to , which was associated with tricuspid valve vegetation. two days after admission with fever, chills, body aches and swelling around her pacemaker, the patient's pacing system was surgically removed. The patient was then discharged at day 16 after surgery and treated with a multidrug regimen of azithromycin, levofloxacin, imipenem/cilastatin, and amikacin for six weeks followed by trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole plus doxycycline for a further three months.
因[病原体名称未给出]导致的心内膜炎和心脏装置感染在医院环境中是一种罕见情况。我们报告一例因[病原体名称未给出]引起的起搏器感染和自身瓣膜心内膜炎病例，该病例伴有三尖瓣赘生物。患者因发热、寒战、身体疼痛以及起搏器周围肿胀入院两天后，其起搏系统被手术移除。患者术后第16天出院，并接受了为期六周的阿奇霉素、左氧氟沙星、亚胺培南/西司他丁和阿米卡星联合用药方案治疗，随后再接受三个月的甲氧苄啶/磺胺甲恶唑加强力霉素治疗。
