Brucella prosthetic valve endocarditis with septic and cardiogenic shock

Abstract

A young man with aortic prosthetic valve replacement, presented with prolonged fever and diagnosed with brucella endocarditis based on positive transthoracic echo findings with high titer positive brucellacapt serology. He was started on medical treatment with doxycycline and rifampin to which gentamicin and ceftriaxone were added and he was planned for surgical intervention. Unfortunately, the patient developed cardiogenic with septic shock before performing surgery and died within 24 h soon after admission.

Keywords

• Brucella
• Prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis
• Heart failure
• Septic shock
• Surgery
• Mortality