Successful treatment of healthcare-associated Mycobacterium chimaera prosthetic infective endocarditis: the first Spanish case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since 2011, several cases of health care-related disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection outbreaks have been reported subsequent to cardiac surgery. Diagnosis is difficult and the prognosis is extremely poor despite long-term antibiotic treatment and surgery.

Case summary

We report a Spanish case of M. chimaera infective endocarditis (IE) with disseminated infection. The patient was treated with long-term antibiotic therapy, valve replacement, and the novel use of interferon-gamma as adjuvant therapy. In addition, [¹⁸F]-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) was used in combination with computed tomography (CT) to facilitate the diagnosis as well as to determine the duration of antibiotics and success of treatmen

SUBMITTER: Zegri-Reiriz I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6426088 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature