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Echocardiography ; Endocarditis* ; Thoracic Surgery

Humans ; Endocarditis, Bacterial/surgery* ; Arthritis/etiology* ; Endocarditis/surgery*

Prosthetic valve endocarditis with aortic root abscess is a serious condition requiring urgent surgical intervention. We present a case caused by an infected Bentall mechanical valve conduit after cardiac surgery in a patient who was referred for a suprasternal pulsatile mass. The patient also had 1 episode of sentinel haemorrhage.
Abscess ; Endocarditis ; Humans ; Thoracic Surgery

Aortic Valve ; surgery ; Endocarditis ; surgery ; Humans

Aneurysm, Infected/surgery* ; Endocarditis/surgery* ; Endocarditis, Bacterial/surgery* ; Humans ; Intracranial Aneurysm/surgery*

Aged ; Aortic Valve ; pathology ; surgery ; Endocarditis ; complications ; surgery ; Endocarditis, Bacterial ; complications ; surgery ; Female ; Glomerulonephritis ; etiology ; Humans

Aspergillus endocarditis is an uncommon, but often fatal, disease that usually occurs in patients who have had prior cardiac surgery. Endophthalmitis is a very rare complication of infective endocarditis, especially at presentation. We report a case of Aspergillus endocarditis in a 68-year-old woman who presented with endophthalmitis.
Aged ; Aspergillus ; Endocarditis ; Endophthalmitis ; Female ; Humans ; Thoracic Surgery

Adult ; Endocarditis/surgery* ; Endocarditis, Bacterial/surgery* ; Hospital Mortality ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk Factors ; Young Adult

Mural endocarditis causing myocardial abscess without valvular involvement is very rare. We report an unusual case of left atrial auricular abscess which was successfully treated by surgical resection, treatment with antibiotics, and mediastinal irrigation. A 9-yr-old female patient with previous history of urinary tract infection was admitted because of persistent fever. Echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed massive pericardial effusion and a mass lesion at the left upper cardiac border. Pericardiocentesis isolated Staphylococcus aureus on culture. The patient underwent mass removal under cardiopulmonary bypass. The mass was located in the left atrial auricle with fibropurulent abscess formation inside. Postoperative mediastinal irrigation was performed using povidone iodine solution. Pathological examination of the mass showed organized thrombi with chronic fibrosing mural endocarditis.
Abscess/microbiology/pathology/*surgery ; Child ; Endocarditis/microbiology/pathology/*surgery ; Female ; Heart Atria/microbiology/pathology ; Human ; Staphylococcal Infections/pathology/*surgery

It is necessary to distinguish between pyogenic and tuberculous spondylitis of infectious spondylitis, if it is pyogenic spondylitis, antimicrobial therapy should be directed against an identified microorganism and clinical assessment should be done at 4 weeks. But if microorganism is a anaerobic bacteria, especially Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, combination antibiotic therapy should be considered bacause it may be a component of mixed infections as a passenger and have abilities to induce abscesses, other bacterial growth as a synergy effect. In addition, echocardiography may be necessary because pyogenic spondylitis is associated with infective endocarditis about 12%. We report a 64-year-old man who was treated for infectious spondylitis accompanied by Peptostreptococcus anaerobius bacteremia, but had to undergo heart surgery because an attack of infective endocarditis with systemic embolism during hospitalization.
Abscess ; Bacteremia ; Bacteria, Anaerobic ; Coinfection ; Echocardiography ; Embolism ; Endocarditis ; Hospitalization ; Peptostreptococcus ; Spondylitis ; Thoracic Surgery