Austrian syndrome
| Autor: | Schandl, Christian |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Clinical Medicine. 20:e1.1-e1 |
| ISSN: | 1473-4893 1470-2118 |
| DOI: | 10.7861/clinmed.let.20.2.1 |
| Popis: | Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most frequently implicated microbial agent in community acquired bacterial pneumonia and meningitis. It is also responsible for between 1 and 3% of cases of native valve infective endocarditis, with mortality rates up to 60%. Osler first described the association between pneumococcal pneumonia, endocarditis, and meningitis secondary to bacteria that he described as ‘micrococci’, subsequently elucidated to be S pneumoniae by Robert Austrian, and the syndrome bears his name. We report a case of fulminant pneumococcal native aortic valve endocarditis and perforation in a young male patient with chronic alcoholism and splenectomy who exhibited poor compliance to pneumococcal prophylaxis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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