1. Endocarditis with myocardial abscesses and pericarditis in an adult: group B Streptococcus as a cause.
- Author
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Hager WD, Speck EL, Mathew PK, Boger JN, and Wallace WA
- Subjects
- Abscess pathology, Adult, Aneurysm, Infected pathology, Arteries pathology, Embolism pathology, Endocarditis, Bacterial pathology, Endocardium pathology, Heart Valves pathology, Humans, Male, Myocarditis pathology, Myocardium pathology, Pericarditis, Constrictive pathology, Streptococcus agalactiae pathogenicity, Abscess microbiology, Endocarditis, Bacterial microbiology, Myocarditis microbiology, Pericarditis, Constrictive microbiology, Streptococcal Infections microbiology
- Abstract
Group B beta-hemolytic Streptococcus, S agalactiae, is an uncommon cause of endocarditis in adults. We present the clinical, laboratory, and postmortem findings of an adult patient with group B streptococcal endocarditis and major arterial emboli. What to our knowledge are previously unreported features are purulent pericarditis and myocardial abscesses. Twenty-five cases of endocarditis caused by group B Streptococcus that are reported in the literature are reviewed.
- Published
- 1977