Dawood Huzaifa, Nasir Saad, Khair Reem M, Dawood Mustafa
Medicine, Naas General Hospital, Naas, IRL.
Internal Medicine, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, PAK.
Cureus. 2021 Aug 26;13(8):e17461. doi: 10.7759/cureus.17461. eCollection 2021 Aug.
(MP) is a gram-positive bacterium most commonly associated with community-acquired pneumonia in adults. It can also involve other systems of the body. Cardiovascular complications include pericarditis, myocarditis, congestive cardiac failure, and, rarely, infective endocarditis. We report a case of infective endocarditis secondary to MP infection in an adult. We treated our patient with doxycycline, which showed significant improvement.
肺炎支原体(MP)是一种革兰氏阳性细菌,最常与成人社区获得性肺炎相关。它也可累及身体的其他系统。心血管并发症包括心包炎、心肌炎、充血性心力衰竭,以及罕见的感染性心内膜炎。我们报告一例成人因MP感染继发感染性心内膜炎的病例。我们用多西环素治疗患者,患者病情有显著改善。