Gaba Parveen, Okoroafor Chidi D, Suryadevara Madhu, Tawadrous Maikel
Infectious Disease, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, USA.
Internal Medicine, Trinity Health of New England, New Haven, USA.
Cureus. 2024 Jul 31;16(7):e65867. doi: 10.7759/cureus.65867. eCollection 2024 Jul.
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a bloodstream infection affecting the valves of the heart. IE is highly associated with morbidity and mortality if not properly managed. () as a cause of IE is extremely rare. This is a case of IE involving a male patient with a history of intravenous drug use (IVDU), secondary to with associated relapse of bacteremia and native tricuspid valve endocarditis, complicated by septic pulmonary emboli, despite undergoing recent vegetation debulking using the AngioVac system (AngioDynamics, Inc., New York, USA) along with six weeks of IV antibiotics and no IVDU since then being on treatment.
感染性心内膜炎（IE）是一种影响心脏瓣膜的血流感染。如果管理不当，IE与发病率和死亡率高度相关。（）作为IE的病因极为罕见。这是一例IE病例，患者为男性，有静脉注射毒品史（IVDU），继发于（此处原文缺失相关内容），伴有菌血症复发和原发性三尖瓣心内膜炎，并发感染性肺栓塞，尽管最近使用AngioVac系统（美国纽约的AngioDynamics公司）进行了赘生物减容治疗，并接受了六周的静脉抗生素治疗，且自治疗以来未再进行IVDU。
