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BRUCELLOSIS COMPLICATED BY AORTIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS
Author(s) -
SKILLINGTON PETER D.,
McGIFFIN DAVID C.,
KEMP RICHARD,
BETT J. H. N.,
HOLT GEOFFREY,
FORGANSMITH ROSS
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1988.tb01650.x
Subject(s) - medicine , brucellosis , endocarditis , aortic valve , brucella , antibiotics , surgery , vegetation (pathology) , serology , cardiology , pathology , immunology , antibody , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
A 30 year old veterinary surgeon developed a febrile illness with serological evidence of Brucellosis. He was known to have aortic valve disease and during the course of the illness, the clinical features of endocarditis became evident, with a vegetation visible echocardiographically on the aortic valve. Because of persisting fever despite appropriate antibiotic therapy, aortic valve replacement with a viable cryopreserved allograft aortic valve was undertaken. Organisms consistent with Brucella species were demonstrated in the excised vegetation. The patient received a six week course of antibiotics and his post‐operative course was uneventful.