Author/Authors :
ATİLLA, Aynur Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi - Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Kliniği, TÜRKİYE , YILMAZ, Esmeray Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, TÜRKİYE , KILIÇ, S. Sırrı Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı, TÜRKİYE
Title Of Article :
A Right-sided Heart Endocarditis and Daptomycine Use in a Patient Who is Not a Injection Drug User: Case Report
Abstract :
Right-sided valves are rarely affected except individuals with intravenous drug users. We hereby present a 45 years old female patient who admitted with fever and right-sided endocarditis with no history of intravenous drug abuse, no history of a predisposing heart disease. The patient’s transthoracic echocardiography revealed vegetations on tricuspid valve and blood culture showed positivity for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA). Patient underwent surgical operation and thereafter daptomycine therapy was administered for 6 weeks. Weekly monitoring of creatinine phosphokinase was in normal limits and daptomycine was well tolerated.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Staphylococcus aureus , endocarditis , tricuspid
JournalTitle :
Fırat University Medical Journal Of Health Sciences
