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[Aerococcus urinae endocarditis: first case report in Belgium and review of the literature]
S Allegre1, V Y Miendje Deyi, I Beyer
1Services de Médecine Interne, Hôpital Erasme. allegre_2000@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Aerococcus urinae is a rarely reported pathogen, possibly due to difficulties in the identification of the organism. Only sixteen cases of A. urinae endocarditis have yet been described. Generally, patients were males with predisposing conditions and the outcomes were bad. We describe the first Belgian case of endocarditis due to A. urinae. Which occurred to a 79-year-old female patient. The diagnostic of A. urinae endocarditis was based on the cardiac ultrasonography and the isolation of the bacteria in 6/7 pairs of blood culture. The patient has been successfully treated by a long course of intravenous antibiotics (38 days) and surgery (aortic valve replacement by bioprothesis). We review the 14 cases published in the English literature and discuss the best clinical management of this type of endocarditis.
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