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Anales de Medicina Interna
versión impresa ISSN 0212-7199
Resumen
LOPEZ RODRIGUEZ, R. et al. Endocarditis caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: report of a case and review of literature. An. Med. Interna (Madrid) [online]. 2003, vol.20, n.6, pp.42-46. ISSN 0212-7199.
We report a case of a 65 year-old woman with late endocarditis of prosthetic aortic valve and paravalvular abscess by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, which had an acute presentation for the memtionated abscess broken, with fever, bacteremia and congestive heart failure secondary to severity aortic regurgitation. It´s a rare cause of endocarditis with only 22 cases descripted in medical literature, the most of them in parenteral drug addict and as complication of cardiac valve replacement. The literature is reviewed and relate the epidemiology, clinical and prognosis characteristics of this disease, the same as his treatment and prevention.
Palabras clave : Stenotrophomonas maltophilia; Xanthomonas maltophilia; Pseudomonas maltophilia; Endocarditis.