Jumatate Raluca, Hammarlund Peter, Holmqvist Madlene, Mokhtari Arash, Rasmussen Magnus
Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Division of Cardiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
IDCases. 2023 Feb 28;31:e01732. doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2023.e01732. eCollection 2023.
is a bacterium that can cause urinary tract infections and on rare occasions infective endocarditis (IE). The prognosis of IE caused by aerococci is generally favourable despite that the patients are typically old and have multiple comorbidities. Here we report a case of native valve aortic IE in a 68-year-old man with an underlying urinary tract condition. The infection led to severe aortic valve insufficiency and rapid death before the patient could be subjected to surgery. This demonstrates that IE caused by can be severe and cause valve destruction. In addition to the case report, we provide a review of the current literature on IE.
是一种可导致尿路感染且在极少数情况下引起感染性心内膜炎（IE）的细菌。尽管感染性心内膜炎患者通常年龄较大且有多种合并症，但由气球菌引起的感染性心内膜炎的预后总体良好。在此，我们报告一例68岁患有潜在泌尿系统疾病的男性发生自体瓣膜主动脉感染性心内膜炎的病例。感染导致严重的主动脉瓣关闭不全，患者在接受手术前迅速死亡。这表明由气球菌引起的感染性心内膜炎可能很严重并导致瓣膜破坏。除病例报告外，我们还对当前关于气球菌感染性心内膜炎的文献进行了综述。
