2008, Cilt 22, Sayı 2, Sayfa(lar) 103-105 |
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PROSTHETIC MITRAL VALVE ENDOCARDITIS DUE TO SALMONELLA PARATYPHI B |
Çiğdem ATAMAN HATİPOĞLU, Tuğba SARI, Günay TUNCER ERTEM, Behiç ORAL |
SB Ankara Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İnfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Kliniği, Ankara |
Keywords: Salmonella, endocarditis, echocardiography |
Endocarditis is a rare cause of salmonellosis and usually occurs in patients with preexisting cardiac abnormalities or cardiac
diseases. We describe a 37-year old male case of prosthetic mitrale valve endocarditis due to Salmonella paratyphi B. Repeated
transthoracic echocardiographies did not reveal vegetations, and the diagnosis could be made by transesophageal
echocardiography. Despite the early appropriate antibiotic treatment, complication occured.
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