Journal of Infectious Diseases & Therapy
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Case Report

A Pediatric Case of Cardiobacterium Hominis Endocarditis after Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction

Mehdi Slim*, Rym Gribaa, Elies Neffati, Sana Ouali, Fehmi Remadi and Essia Boughzela
Department of Cardiology, Sahloul Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
Corresponding Author :	Mehdi Slim Hôpital Sahloul, Route de la ceinture Hammam Sousse 4054, Sousse, Tunisia Tel: +216 98696847 Fax: +216 73 367 451 Email: mehdislim_fms@yahoo.fr
Received January 30, 2015, Accepted April 11, 2015, Published April 18, 2015
Citation: Gribaa R, Slim M, Neffati E, Ouali S, Remadi F, et al. (2015) A Pediatric Case of Cardiobacterium Hominis Endocarditis after Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction. J Infect Dis Ther 3:210. doi:10.4172/2332-0877.1000210
Copyright: © 2015 Slim M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Cardiobacterium hominis, a member of the HACEK group of organisms, is a rare cause of endocarditis and is even rarer in pediatric population. In this report, we present a case of infective endocarditis caused by C. hominis in a 16-year-old Tunisian girl who had undergone right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction using a Hancock® heterograft for double outlet right ventricle with pulmonary stenosis. Two weeks before admission, the patient suffered from worsened shortness of breath and fever. Tranthoracic echocardiography revealed right ventricular outflow tract stenosis and vegetation attached to the leaflet conduit. The Subsequent blood cultures grew Cardiobacterium hominis and the patient was treated successfully with 6 weeks of intravenous ceftriaxone therapy. Conduit replacement was performed after appropriate antibiotic therapy with favourable course.

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