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Streptococcus gordonii-associated infective endocarditis in a girl with Barlow’s mitral valve disease

Part of: Infectious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2019

Roman R. Komorovsky Open the ORCID record for Roman R. Komorovsky [Opens in a new window] ,
Oksana R. Boyarchuk  and
Vira O. Synytska
Roman R. Komorovsky
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine No. 2, I.Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine
Oksana R. Boyarchuk*
Affiliation:
Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery, I.Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine
Vira O. Synytska
Affiliation:
Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery, I.Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, Ternopil, Ukraine
*
Author for correspondence: O. Boyarchuk, Department of Children’s Diseases and Pediatric Surgery, I.Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University, 46001, 1, m.Voli, Ternopil, Ukraine. Tel: +38(0)686218248; Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

We present a case of infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus gordonii in an 11-year-old girl with Barlow’s mitral valve disease. The differential diagnosis of rheumatic carditis and infective endocarditis was difficult as the patient fulfilled the Jones criteria. Vegetation on the mitral valve which became evident later in course of the disease and positive blood culture allowed diagnosing “definite” infective endocarditis.

Keywords

Streptococcus gordoniiinfective endocarditisBarlow’s mitral valve disease
Type
Brief Report
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 29 , Issue 8 , August 2019 , pp. 1099 - 1100
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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