AI Article Synopsis
- The text discusses a serious condition involving gram-positive bacteremia, which is often linked to septic bursitis, a joint infection.
- While many cases report septic bursitis causing endocarditis and other complications, there are limited cases of septic bursitis leading to infective endocarditis.
- A specific patient case is presented, highlighting a person with a history of recurrent bursitis who developed sepsis and infective endocarditis.
Article Abstract
is a cause of life-threatening gram-positive bacteremia and the most common causative organism of septic bursitis. Although there are several case reports of infective endocarditis complicated with septic bursitis and other rheumatic complications, there are very few cases reports of septic bursitis leading to infective endocarditis (IE). We present a patient with a history of recurrent prepatellar bursitis requiring catheter drainage, who presented with sepsis and IE.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10146384 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36806 | DOI Listing |
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