Despite improvements in antibiotic regimens, patients with infective endocarditis (IE) have a high risk of valve replacement and death. Effective initial treatment depends on two steps: 1) diagnosis of the infecting organism, enabling specific antibiotic therapy, and 2) complete characterization of the anatomic extent of infection. Identification of the infecting organism requires culturing of ...

Ochrobactrum anthropi is a gram-negative rod of low virulence. Infections due to this organism are uncommon; however in immunocompromised hosts it can cause severe infections. Among the many infections it can cause, infective endocarditis is very rare. Even rarer is infective endocarditis of the native valves, as Ochrobactrum antropi affects damaged or prosthetic valves almost exclusively. This...

Despite the improved preventive strategies, rational antibiotic prescribing, advances in imaging and increasing use of early lifesaving cardiac surgery, the incidence of IE remains still high at 1.7–6.2 per 100,000 person years in the USA and Europe, with a 1-year mortality approaching 40%.3 The incidence (11.6/100,000) increases in certain areas where IVDAss are common. But, such estimates fro...

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OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical and bacteriological features of infective endocarditis in the elderly. DESIGN Prospective case series. SETTING A university hospital that is both a referral and a primary care centre. PATIENTS 114 consecutive patients treated for infective endocarditis from November 1990 to December 1993: 25 were > 70 years of age (group 1) and 89 were < 70 years old (g...

Prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis is associated with valve ring abscess, conduction abnormalities and a grave prognosis. Aortic root abscess is a serious complication of infective endocarditis with high mortality. We report a case of a patient who had echocardiographic features resembling aortic root abscess along with severe aortic regurgitation, 6 weeks following aortic valve replacement. ...