Recurrent bacterial endocarditis in a man with tetralogy of Fallot: earliest recurrence on record.
Enterococcal endocarditis occurred in a young man with tetralogy of Fallot who had just completed therapy for staphylococcal endocarditis. The patient had a transient reversal of flow through the ventricular septal defect during staphylococcal endocarditis with lung abscesses and had persistently elevated teichoic acid antibody titers during the second episode caused by enterococcus. Our review of the literature on recurrent infective endocarditis indicates that our case represents one of the shortest intervals of recurrence with a second organism.
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Department of Medicine, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield.
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Graham
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D000328:Adult; D000667:Ampicillin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology*; D013293:Enterococcus faecalis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012008:Recurrence; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013290:Streptococcal Infections; D013771:Tetralogy of Fallot / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D013997:Time Factors
D000667:Ampicillin