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A Case of Native Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Staphylococcus lugdunensis  

Cho, Hwan-Jin (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Ulsan Hospital)
Seol, Sang-Hoon (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine)
Park, Sang-Yool (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine)
Jun, Hyun-Soo (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine)
Kim, Dong-Kie (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine)
Kim, Doo-Il (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine)
Kim, Dong-Soo (Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine)
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The Korean Journal of Medicine / v.80, no.2, 2011 , pp. 212-215 More about this Journal
Abstract
A 37-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a 1-month history of fever. She also complained of lower leg pain. Transthoracic echocardiography showed large vegetations on the mitral valve leaflets. Staphylococcus lugdunensis was isolated from blood cultures. She was diagnosed with infectious endocarditis due to S. lugdunensis and was treated with antibiotics and surgery. Infective endocarditis caused by S. lugdunensis can be invasive and often resembles endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus. Thus, whenever this organism is found in patients with endocarditis, early surgical treatment of the infected valve should be considered.
Keywords
Staphylococcus lugdunensis; Endocarditis;
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