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KMID : 0882420110800020212
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Korean Journal of Medicine
2011 Volume.80 No. 2 p.212 ~ p.215
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A Case of Native Valve Infective Endocarditis Caused by Staphylococcus lugdunensis
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Cho Hwan-Jin
Seol Sang-Hoon
Park Sang-Yool
Jun Hyun-Soo
Kim Dong-Kie
Kim Doo-Il
Kim Dong-Soo
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Abstract
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A 37-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a 1-month history of fever. She also complained of lower leg pain. Transthoracic echocardiography showed large vegetations on the mitral valve leaflets. Staphylococcus lugdunensis was isolated from blood cultures. She was diagnosed with infectious endocarditis due to S. lugdunensis and was treated with antibiotics and surgery. Infective endocarditis caused by S. lugdunensis can be invasive and often resembles endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus. Thus, whenever this organism is found in patients with endocarditis, early surgical treatment of the infected valve should be considered.
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KEYWORD
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Staphylococcus lugdunensis, Endocarditis
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