1. Native valve Escherichia coli endocarditis following urosepsis
- Author
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Vasavi Krishnamurthy, S Devaraj, D Rangarajan, N Satyaki, Y Kothari, K C Patro, and S Ramakrishnan
- Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty ,Native Valve Endocarditis ,business.industry ,Urinary system ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Case Report ,native valve endocarditis ,medicine.disease ,lcsh:Diseases of the genitourinary system. Urology ,lcsh:RC870-923 ,Surgery ,Sepsis ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Valve replacement ,Nephrology ,Infective endocarditis ,Mitral valve ,cardiovascular system ,Escherichia coli ,Medicine ,Endocarditis ,business ,urosepsis ,Endocardium - Abstract
Gram-negative organisms are a rare cause of infective endocarditis. Escherichia coli, the most common cause of urinary tract infection and gram-negative septicemia involves endocardium rarely. In this case report, we describe infection of native mitral valve by E. coli following septicemia of urinary tract origin in a diabetic male; subsequently, he required prosthetic tissue valve replacement indicated by persistent sepsis and congestive cardiac failure.
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- 2013