par Allegre, S;Miendje Deyi, Yvette Véro 
;Beyer, Ingo ;Pepersack, Thierry ;Cherifi, Soraya
Référence Revue médicale de Bruxelles, 29, 6, page (568-571)
Publication Publié, 2008
;Beyer, Ingo ;Pepersack, Thierry ;Cherifi, Soraya Référence Revue médicale de Bruxelles, 29, 6, page (568-571)
Publication Publié, 2008
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Aerococcus urinae is a rarely reported pathogen, possibly due to difficulties in the identification of the organism. Only sixteen cases of A. urinae endocarditis have yet been described. Generally, patients were males with predisposing conditions and the outcomes were bad. We describe the first Belgian case of endocarditis due to A. urinae. Which occurred to a 79-year-old female patient. The diagnostic of A. urinae endocarditis was based on the cardiac ultrasonography and the isolation of the bacteria in 6/7 pairs of blood culture. The patient has been successfully treated by a long course of intravenous antibiotics (38 days) and surgery (aortic valve replacement by bioprothesis). We review the 14 cases published in the English literature and discuss the best clinical management of this type of endocarditis. |
