Following the induction of aortic insufficiency, 15 dogs received intravenous injections of either Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus mitis. The clinical course and pathologic picture resembled those of acute and subacute bacterial endocarditis respectively. The valvular lesions were confined largely to contacting surfaces of aortic and mitral leaflets. The dogs given S. mitis often develop...

We sequenced the genome of Streptococcus pyogenes strain G773 that caused an infective endocarditis in a 4-year-old boy suffering from acute endocarditis. The 1.9-Mb genome exhibited a specific combination of virulence factors including a complete integrative and conjugative element, sp2905, previously described as incomplete in S. pyogenes, and five bacteriocin-coding genes. However, strain G7...

aneurysms (Figure 1a). There were no signs nor sympIntroduction toms of polyarteritis nodosa nor microscopic polyarteritis. The arterio-venous fistula was successfully treated Renal aneurysms are common in polyarteritis nodosa, by embolization. The patient received antibiotics for either idiopathic or associated with HBV or HCV 10 weeks (teicoplanin, ofloxacin and meticillin). Due infection [1]...

Background: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening systemic disease that mostly affects people with valvular heart disease, prosthetic valves, or intracardiac devices. Infective endocarditis is a dangerous cardiac involvement in thalassemia patients. Thus, a multidisciplinary approach is important to provide efficient and effective therapy. Case presentation: A 31-year-old man cam...

Bacterial endocarditis is a complex disease associated with high morbidity and mortality with complications that include acute heart failure and arterial embolism. Venous thrombosis of the lower limbs is not uncommon following all forms of surgery, but infrequent following cardiac surgery, and rarely progresses to venous gangrene. We report a case of bilateral lower-limb venous gangrene, in a 4...

Sub acute left-sided bacterial endocarditis is a serious condition that may be overlooked due to highly variable clinical manifestations. We present the case of a 45-year-old man who presented with complaints of fullness in his abdomen and splenomegaly that referred to the surgery clinic. He underwent diagnostic splenectomy. 3 month after splenectomy endocarditis was diagnosed. We recommend ech...

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 ...

Pneumococcal endocarditis is an uncommon disease. Here, we describe a case of endocarditis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in a young man following a nose trauma. In traumas that involve the respiratory system and the mucous membrane, bacterial complications such as colonization and bacteremia and end-organ involvement should be considered by physicians.

Renal dysfunction associated with bacterial endocarditis can occur via a number of different mechanisms: immune complex deposition with glomerulonephritis, antibiotic-induced acute interstitial nephritis, acute tubular necrosis secondary to toxin or volume depletion, emboli causing renal infarction, direct invasion of the parenchyma by the microorganism, and thrombotic microangiopathy with cort...