Evangelista-Abreu Walter, Alsamman Mrhaf, Addisu Anteneh, Dhaon Nitin, Reyes Arnaldo, Knight Lily, Alaan Hamza
Graduate Medical Education, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.
Internal Medicine Residency Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Ocala Regional Medical Center, Ocala, FL, USA.
J Med Cases. 2022 Jul;13(7):349-353. doi: 10.14740/jmc3954. Epub 2022 Jul 20.
() is a gram negative bacterium rarely associated with cases of infective endocarditis (IE). Involvement of three cardiac valves, as evidenced by echocardiography, is uncommon as well. IE and tri-valvular endocarditis have been rarely described in literature. We report a unique case of tri-valvular IE in a 42-year-old female with sudden altered mental status and no underlying structural heart disease complicated by embolic infarcts in both cerebral and cerebellar hemispheres, and a sub-arachnoid hemorrhage. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of tri-valvular IE. We believe this report will add to the growing literature of rare bacterial IE and considering this in the differential in the right clinical scenario.
(某细菌名称未给出)是一种革兰氏阴性菌,很少与感染性心内膜炎(IE)病例相关。超声心动图显示累及三个心脏瓣膜的情况也不常见。IE和三尖瓣心内膜炎在文献中很少被描述。我们报告了一例独特的三尖瓣IE病例,患者为一名42岁女性,突发精神状态改变,无潜在结构性心脏病,并发大脑和小脑半球的栓塞性梗死以及蛛网膜下腔出血。据我们所知,这是首例报告的三尖瓣IE病例。我们相信本报告将为不断增加的罕见细菌性IE文献增添内容,并在正确的临床情况下将其纳入鉴别诊断考虑。