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| Year : 2017 | Volume
: 63
| Issue : 2 | Page : 135-137 |
Native valve endocarditis caused by Kocuria rosea complicated by peripheral mycotic aneurysm in an elderly host
P Gunaseelan1, G Suresh2, V Raghavan2, S Varadarajan2
1 Department of Family Medicine, Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
2 Department of General Medicine, Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
P Gunaseelan
Department of Family Medicine, Sundaram Medical Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_441_16
Infective endocarditis still remains a dreaded illness among treating physicians because of the disease course, its need for meticulous antibiotic management, complications, and overall morbidity. Peripheral mycotic aneurysms are a rarely reported complication of infective endocarditis. Mycotic aneurysms occur in about 5%–10% of cases of infective endocarditis, and most of them involve the intracranial vessels. Here, we report a case of native valve endocarditis in a 74-year-old man caused by Kocuria rosea. He presented with septic shock and acute kidney injury. His illness was complicated by a right popliteal artery mycotic aneurysm. He was treated with intravenous ceftriaxone and vancomycin. The mycotic aneurysm needed aneurysmectomy and anastomosis with a graft.
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