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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 95, 862-867, Copyright © 1988 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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Brucella infective endocarditis. Successful combined medical and surgical therapy

S al-Kasab, MR al-Fagih, S al-Yousef, MA Ali Khan, PA Ribeiro, S Nazzal and M al- Zaibag
Riyadh Cardiac Centre, Armed Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia.

Five cases of Brucella infective endocarditis are described involving a native aortic valve, two native mitral valves, a mitral valve bioprosthesis, and a ventricular septal defect patch. The diagnosis of Brucella infective endocarditis was established from the clinical features, with a high Brucella serologic titer in each case. Blood and tissue cultures were positive in four of five patients. Two-dimensional echocardiograms demonstrated moderately large vegetations on the three affected native valves and the patch and also revealed the development of vegetation on the mitral bioprosthesis as the disease progressed. All the patients were successfully treated by combined surgical and medical therapy, the latter consisting of co-trimoxazole, tetracycline, and streptomycin/gentamicin for 6 weeks; the affected valves and the ventricular septal defect patch were all replaced. There were no operative deaths and there has been no recurrence of infection to date. One patient died suddenly of an unknown cause 1 year after the operation.

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