Austrian Syndrome: A Disease Of The Past?

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  • Joaquin Perez-Andreu
  • Elisa Garcia Vazquez
  • Jose Maria Arribas
چکیده

Since the advent of antibiotics in the 1930s the mortality associated with invasive pneumococcal infection (IPI) resulted in a rapid decline [1]. In recent years, a larger number of cases have been reported due to penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae strains [2]. Austrian syndrome is a rare triad of pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis [3]. We hereby present a case of infective aortic endocarditis with severe heart failure and emergency valve replacement in a patient treated with meningitis and pneumonia.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014