title: Aortic valve streptococcus group B endocarditis post-extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Sub-acute left-sided bacterial endocarditis is a serious condition that may present with variable clinical manifestations. Its symptoms include both sterile and infected emboli, and various immunological phenomena.
  
  
  METHODS
  This report presents a 55 year old man with frequency and dysuria after a lithotripsy and several admissions with urosepsis. Due to the suspicion of infective endocarditis echocardiography was done which confirmed streptococcus group B endocarditis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Streptococci group B is one of the rare causes of infective endocarditis, but it was observed after various producers such as lithotripsy.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Meidani
authors.forename: Mahboobeh
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Taghavi
authors.forename: Morteza
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abdar Esfahani
keywords: Group B Streptococci; Infective Endocarditis; Lithotripsy