A Case of Neonatal Infective Endocarditis without Cardiac Anomaly.
- Author:
Do Youn KONG
;
Hye Kyung LEE
;
Young Chang KIM
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Neonatal infective endocarditis;
Staphylococcus aureus
- MeSH:
Autopsy;
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation;
Catheterization;
Catheters;
Endocarditis*;
Female;
Gestational Age;
Heart Defects, Congenital;
Humans;
Incidence;
Infant;
Infant, Newborn;
Infant, Premature;
Korea;
Rare Diseases;
Staphylococcus;
Staphylococcus aureus;
Umbilical Veins;
Veins;
Ventilators, Mechanical
- From:Journal of the Korean Society of Neonatology
1998;5(1):109-112
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Neonatal infective endocarditis is fatal and rare disease but recently there is a trend of an increase in incidence even without congenital heart disease when there are high risk as prematurity, central vein catheterization and neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Symchych reported that in about 3% of autopsy cases of an year, the findings of infective endocarditis were noted. In Korea, there was a case report but it was case of a premature infant who had umbilical vein catheterization and respiratory ventilator treatment. We experienced a case of neonatal infective endocarditis in a female infant who was delivered at 34 weeks gestational age without receiving central vein catheterization or neonatal cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Although she received intensive antibiotic therapy for staphylococcus cultured in blood, she died necessarily. We reported a case of neonatal infective endocarditis without cardiac anomaly with brief review of related literature.
