Tricuspid valve myxoma infected with dysgonic fermenter-2.
We have described a patient with an infected myxoma attached to the tricuspid valve. Unlike those previously reported, our patient had a significant underlying disease, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and presented the problem of multiple pulmonary infiltrates in an immunosuppressed host, with persistently negative blood cultures. The infecting bacterium, isolated only at operation, was a recently described fastidious gram-negative rod belonging to the CDC group dysgonic fermenter-2.
D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000150:complications; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D009232:Myxoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D014261:Tricuspid Valve / Q000382:microbiology