abiotrophia defectiva was previously known as a member of the nutritionally variant streptococcus (nvs). this microorganism is a member of the normal flora of mouth, urogenital and intestinal tracts. it causes various infections such as bacteriemia, brain abscess, septic arthritis and rarely infective endocarditis. only < 1% of all cases of endocarditis are caused by a. defectiva. a 23 year old...

Brucella endocarditis is an uncommon but not rare manifestation of brucellosis in our country. We report six adult patients aged 20 to 45 years. Two of our patients were female, and this is the first time that Brucella endocarditis was reported in adult females. In five cases, aortic valve replacement was performed in addition to combined antibiotic therapy. One of them died due to immedia...

secondary systemic vasculitis and nonbacterial endocarditis are rare events. we report a case presented with different manifestations of underlying malignancy such as systemic vasculitis, non bacterial endocarditis and dic (disseminated intravascular coagulopathy). efforts to find the source of malignancy was unsuccessful and due to patient's unwillingness for further evaluation, finally under ...

introduction: infective endocarditis is a rare, fatal ,with high morbidity in children, since infective endocarditis in children was not assessed in our conditions so our study was attempted.   material and methods: this cross-sectional  study  include 19 patients less than 18 years old  with endocarditis   were hospitalized in the department of pediatric cardiology( university of mashhad medic...

Background/Objective: The aim of the present preliminary study was to assess the demographic, clinical, paraclinical, microbiological, echocardiographic, and therapeutic profile as well as in-hospital outcome of patients with infective endocarditis at a referral center for various infectious diseases in Iran.Methods: Required demographic, clinical, plausible complications and paraclinical data ...

  Multiple aorto-cardiac cavity communications is very rare but important complication of prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis. The case below illustrates multiple aorto-cardiac cavity fistula formation following prostethic aortic valve endocarditis presented with slowly progressive symptoms of heart failure. A brief review of surgical reconstruction and the existing literature are presented, i...

multiple aorto-cardiac cavity communications is very rare but important complication of prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis. the case below illustrates multiple aorto-cardiac cavity fistula formation following prostethic aortic valve endocarditis presented with slowly progressive symptoms of heart failure. a brief review of surgical reconstruction and the existing literature are presented, inc...