Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Case ReportPulmonary Embolus Caused by Suttonella indologenes Prosthetic Endocarditis in a Pulmonary Homograft
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Case Presentation
A 28-year-old Cambodian man with complex congenital heart disease presented with a 6-month history of increasing fatigue, night sweats, and an unintentional 30-pound weight loss. The patient reported a history of congenital heart disease, including two Blalock-Taussig shunts placed 9 years of age and a subsequent surgical ventricular septal defect closure and placement of a pulmonary valve conduit via a Rastelli procedure. He denied illicit drug use and was on no medications. The physical exam
Discussion
This is the first known case of echocardiographically documented prosthetic endocarditis caused by S. indologenes. The same bacterium under prior classification, Kingella indologenes,1 was reported in a patient with a history of mitral and aortic valve replacements and positive blood cultures, but without vegetations seen on TTE and M-mode imaging.2 Although S. indologenes is not officially part of the HACEK group (Haemophilus parainfluenzae, H. aphrophilus, H. paraphrophilus, H. influenzae,
Acknowledgment
We would like to thank Dr. Arnold Bayer for his assistance in editing the manuscript.
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