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Volume 45, Number 3, June 2012

 Staphylococcus lugdunensis endocarditis with isolated tricuspid valve involvement


Kuei-Pin Chung, Hou-Tai Chang, Chun-Hsing Liao, Fang-Yeh Chu, Po-Ren Hsueh


Received: July 24, 2010    Revised: October 11, 2010    Accepted: November 16, 2010   

 

Corresponding author:

 Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7,

Chung-Shan South Rd., Taipei 100, Taiwan. E-mail address: hsporen@ntu.edu.tw (P.-R. Hsueh).


 

Background and purpose: 

 Staphylococcus lugdunensis is often misidentified as S aureus and as a rare cause of infective endocarditis. The clinical course of S lugdunensis endocarditis is aggressive and the mortality

rate is high in contrast to S epidermidis endocarditis. Most reported cases of S lugdunensis endocarditis have involved mitral or aortic valves. Herein, we present a case with isolated
tricuspid endocarditis due to S lugdunensis.


 

Key words:

 Endocarditis; Staphylococcus lugdunensis; Tricuspid valve