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Published on: January 7, 2019
[Endocarditis of mitral and aortic prosthetic heart valves caused by Aggregatibacter aphrophilus]
B Deleixhe1, F Frippiat2, P Léonard2
1Faculté de Médecine, Université de Liège.
Abstract:
We present the case of an acute endocarditis of mitral and aortic prosthetic heart valves caused by Aggregatibacter aphrophilus (Haemophilus aphrophilus-paraphrophilus). This third report in the literature emphasizes the diagnostic work-up and the role of positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography in this setting. The specificities of endocarditis due to the HACEK group (Haemophilus spp., Aggregatibacter, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens and Kingella spp.) and the specific microbiological data and therapeutic options pertinent to this germ are discussed.
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