A case of right-side infective endocarditis with ventricular septal defect

Ozge Turhan; Rabin Saba; Aytil Belgi; Dilara Inan; Hicran Karaoglan; Ata Nevzat Yalcin

A case of right-side infective endocarditis with ventricular septal defect

Infez Med. 2005 Mar;13(1):39-41.

Authors

Ozge Turhan¹, Rabin Saba, Aytil Belgi, Dilara Inan, Hicran Karaoglan, Ata Nevzat Yalcin

Affiliation

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Medicine Faculty, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey.

PMID: 15888981

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Ampicillin / administration & dosage
Ampicillin / therapeutic use
Anti-Bacterial Agents / administration & dosage
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Echocardiography
Endocarditis, Bacterial / complications*
Endocarditis, Bacterial / diagnostic imaging
Endocarditis, Bacterial / drug therapy
Female
Gentamicins / administration & dosage
Gentamicins / therapeutic use
Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular / complications*
Humans
Staphylococcal Infections / complications*
Staphylococcal Infections / drug therapy
Staphylococcus aureus / drug effects
Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification
Sulbactam / administration & dosage
Sulbactam / therapeutic use
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Gentamicins
sultamicillin
Ampicillin
Sulbactam