Streptococcus Constellatus Community Acquired Pneumonia with Subsequent Isolated Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis and Abscess Formation in a Structurally Normal Heart.
- Author:
Tarek Ali ELHUSSEIN
1
;
Stuart James HUTCHISON
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Infective endocarditis; Pulmonary valve; Echocardiogram; Streptococcus
- MeSH: Abscess*; Alcoholism; Endocarditis*; Heart*; Humans; Male; Pneumonia*; Pulmonary Valve; Risk Factors; Streptococcus; Streptococcus constellatus*; Streptococcus milleri Group
- From:Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2014;22(2):91-94
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Pulmonic valve infective endocarditis in isolation is a rare clinical entity. The formation of an abscess in the right ventricular outflow tract as a consequence of vegetations affecting the pulmonic valve in a structurally normal heart is extremely rare and has not been reported. We report a case of isolated pulmonic valve endocarditis complicated by a regional abscess formed within the right ventricular outflow tract caused by Streptococcus Constellatus (S. Constellatus), a member of the Streptococcus Milleri group in a young male whose risk factor was alcohol abuse and he was treated medically, a comprehensive literature review on the subject is also reported. Our case is the first reported in literature with infective endocarditis caused by S. Constellatus affecting the pulmonic valve, and the first with pulmonic valve endocarditis and perivalvular abscess formation in a structurally normal heart.
