Native valve endocarditis and pacemaker infection with Mycobacterium fortuitum.

IDCases

Department of Infectious Disease, Mercyhealth, Rockford, IL, USA.

Published: June 2021

Endocarditis and cardiac device infection due to is a rare entity in the hospital settings. We report a case of pacemaker infection and native valve endocarditis due to , which was associated with tricuspid valve vegetation. two days after admission with fever, chills, body aches and swelling around her pacemaker, the patient's pacing system was surgically removed. The patient was then discharged at day 16 after surgery and treated with a multidrug regimen of azithromycin, levofloxacin, imipenem/cilastatin, and amikacin for six weeks followed by trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole plus doxycycline for a further three months.

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