Haemophilus endocarditis. A report of two cases.
Two cases of infective endocarditis caused by Haemophilus species are presented. Salient features were the following: occurrence in young adults, presence of underlying valvular disease, and presumptive diagnosis of renal artery embolism in one patient and petechial haemorrhages in the other. Recent reports of an increasing number of cases of infective endocarditis caused by Haemophilus species prompted us to report these 2 cases.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006192:Haemophilus Infections; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male