ISSN:
1432-1238
Keywords:
Endocarditis
;
Pulmonic valve
;
Complications of catheterization
;
Pulmonary artery catheter
;
Nosocomial infection
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract We report the case of a 29-year-old man with decompensated alcoholic cardiomyopathy who developed a Staphylococcal pulmonic valve infective endocarditis during hemodynamic monitoring, as a consequence of catheter-related bacteremia. As experimentally demonstrated, the damaging role of the pulmonary artery catheter on the endocardial surface plays a major role in the pathogenesis of related right-sided infective endocarditis. Occurrence of bacteremia in a catheterized patient should be considered as a high risk situation, and righ-heart infective endocarditis must be suspected whenever patient presents fever or bacteremia without obvious site of infection. Doppler echocardiography is the reference diagnosis procedure.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01707670
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