A case of infective endocarditis after transurethral prostatic resection.
We report a case of infective endocarditis (IE) after transurethral prostatic resection (TUR-P). A 63-year-old man who had underwent TUR-P for benign prostatic hyperplasia. After 40 days of surgery, he developed a fever. A diagnosis of IE was established by cardiography which detected large vegetation at mitral valve. After intravenous antibiotics therapy, he underwent mitral valve replacement surgery.
Kawahara
Takashi
T
Department of Urology, Yokohama City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, 236-0004, Japan.
Taguchi
Hiroki
H
Yamagishi
Takuya
T
Udagawa
Koichi
K
Ouchi
Hideki
H
Misaki
Hioshi
H