Infective endocarditis after open heart surgery.
This work was done in Ain Shams University hospital during the period from December 1988 to July 1989. This included 20 patients subjected to open heart surgery and suffering from post operative non reactive fever clinically diagnosed as infection endocarditis. The frequency of positive blood culture endocarditis following open hear surgery was 2.5% and the most affected valve in our study was prosthetic aortic valve (60%). Pseudomonas aeruginosa represented 60% of the isolated organisms from blood cultures, followed by staph. aureus (30%), streptpneumonea and Klebsiella (20%), and finally diphthroids in 10% of cases.
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Clinical Pathology Department, Ain-Shams University.
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D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D008297:Male; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000382:microbiology