Infectious Endocarditis Caused by Pseudomona aeruginosa on Bicuspid Aortic Valve.

ABSTRACT: We report the case of a 53-year-old man with psoriatic arthritis, suffering from a malignant and recidivant myoepithelioma in his right axilla and arm, and undergoing two surgeries, with the last one being performed a month prior to actual admission. After the last surgery, he was admitted to hospital with fever without a source. After physical examination, laboratory tests, blood cultures and transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, he was diagnosed with infectious endocarditis (IE) on a bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) caused by Pseudomona aeruginosa (PA). Antibiogram-guided antibiotic therapy with meropenem and tobramicin was initiated. However, in the presence of repetitive spleen infarctions and a large vegetation, 12 days after admission, a bioprosthesis aortic valve imp

SUBMITTER: Lacalzada-Almeida J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9239513 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature