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  • - An elderly Caucasian male with a complex medical history including dextrocardia, polymyalgia rheumatica, and heart issues was admitted with acute heart failure and serious breathing difficulties.
  • - After a recent transient ischemic attack, tests revealed severe mitral regurgitation due to myxomatous degeneration, necessitating mitral valve replacement.
  • - Genome sequencing linked his valve pathology to culture-negative endocarditis, leading to a treatment plan of antibiotics that improved his condition.

Article Abstract

We report a case of an elderly Caucasian male with past medical history of dextrocardia with situs inversus totalis, polymyalgia rheumatica, history of cryptogenic stroke, and severe mitral regurgitation with mitral valve prolapse, who presented with acute heart failure symptoms, including severe dyspnea on exertion and worsening lower extremity edema in the setting of immunosuppression with steroids for a year-old diagnosis of polymyalgia rheumatica. One month prior to this presentation, the patient suffered a transient ischemic attack and during the workup, his transthoracic echocardiography showed myxomatous degeneration of posterior mitral leaflet, partially flail, with severe mitral regurgitation, which required mitral valve replacement. Genome sequencing of mitral valve anterior leaflet pathology detected as a causal agent of culture-negative endocarditis. The patient was treated with 6 weeks of ceftriaxone and ampicillin-sulbactam and further continued trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for 1 year. He continued antibiotic treatment with resolution of shortness of breath along with arthralgia.

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