A case of right-side infective endocarditis with ventricular septal defect.
A 28-year-old woman previously known to have a ventricular septal defect presented with fever, headache, abdominal pain and nausea. Positive blood culture of methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus and the detection of vegetation attached to the right ventricular wall near the ostium of the ventricular septal defect confirmed diagnosis of infective endocarditis. After four weeks' treatment with proper antibiotics the patient recovered.
Turhan
Ozge
O
Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Medicine Faculty, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.
Saba
Rabin
R
Belgi
Aytil
A
Inan
Dilara
D
Karaoglan
Hicran
H
Yalcin
Ata Nevzat
AN
D000328:Adult; D000667:Ampicillin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004452:Echocardiography; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy; D005260:Female; D005839:Gentamicins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006345:Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013407:Sulbactam / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D005839:Gentamicins; C035444:sultamicillin; D000667:Ampicillin; D013407:Sulbactam