Burkholderia cepacia Endocarditis in a Patient With Severe Mitral Annular Calcification
This report presents the case of a 76-year-old woman from Honduras with severe mitral annular calcification and severe aortic stenosis who presented with chest pain and presyncope. She was found to have infective endocarditis with a large abscess on the posterior mitral leaflet secondary to <i>Burkholderia cepacia</i> bacteremia.
Authors
- Vincent Pepe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0047-5327)
- Rupal P. O'Quinn
- Roy Arjoon
- Henrietta Afari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5190-4777)
Institutions
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (US)
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JACC Case Reports
- Published
- 2024-08-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102431
- Primary Topic
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00