TY - JOUR
T1 - Bartonella quintana endocarditis as a cause of severe aortic insufficiency and heart failure
AU - Dimopoulos, Stavros
AU - Eleftherakis, Evagelos
AU - Charitos, Christos
AU - Sakellaridis, Timotheos
AU - Sinapidis, Dimitrios
AU - Kostis, Evagelos
AU - Toumanidis, Savvas
AU - Efstathiou, Eleni
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We describe the case of a 26-year-old man who developed severe aortic valve insufficiency due to a culturenegative endocarditis, leading to severe heart failure. The diagnosis of Bartonella quintana endocarditis was suspected from the clinical presentation and serological immunofluorescence assay, and was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction analysis of excised valve tissue after aortic valve replacement. The aim of this report is to illustrate B. quintana endocarditis as an important cause of culture-negative endocarditis that presents challenges in its clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic management.
AB - We describe the case of a 26-year-old man who developed severe aortic valve insufficiency due to a culturenegative endocarditis, leading to severe heart failure. The diagnosis of Bartonella quintana endocarditis was suspected from the clinical presentation and serological immunofluorescence assay, and was confirmed by polymerase chain reaction analysis of excised valve tissue after aortic valve replacement. The aim of this report is to illustrate B. quintana endocarditis as an important cause of culture-negative endocarditis that presents challenges in its clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic management.
KW - Aortic valve insufficiency
KW - Bartonella quintana
KW - Culture-negative endocarditis
KW - Heart failure
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M3 - Article
C2 - 23178432
AN - SCOPUS:84870403878
SN - 1109-9666
VL - 53
SP - 476
EP - 479
JO - Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
JF - Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
IS - 6
ER -