Pneumococcal Endocarditis, Sepsis, and Meningitis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case Study
Anastasios Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Angelos Karagiannis, Panagiotis M. Sarris-Michopoulos, Kathleen Ebersol, Michael Andrew Vavuranakis, Stephanie Cantu, David Vadnais, Noble Maleque · 2024
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Description
Anastasios Nikolaos Panagopoulos and seven co-authors describe a rare and dangerous infection case in this two thousand twenty-four case report. The bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae seldom infect heart valves, but when they do the damage can be fast and severe.
Their patient was a thirty-seven-year-old man with untreated HIV who arrived with fever, confusion, and back pain, a year after surviving pneumococcal sepsis and meningitis. Tests showed the infection had returned and spread to his mitral valve, with large growths on it. A team of specialists combined targeted antibiotics with prompt valve replacement surgery, and the patient recovered. The report urges doctors to suspect this infection early in high-risk patients, since quick surgery can save lives.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anastasios Nikolaos Panagopoulos, Angelos Karagiannis, Panagiotis M. Sarris-Michopoulos, Kathleen Ebersol, Michael Andrew Vavuranakis, Stephanie Cantu, David Vadnais, Noble Maleque |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |