Successful treatment of aortic valve endocarditis caused by Enterococcus casseliflavus: a case report.

Nobumasa OkumuraTakashi WatanabeSatoshi TeranishiDaisuke SuzukiTakahiko HashimotoKosuke TakahashiToru Hara

Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2021)

Our case demonstrated that E. casseliflavus could cause infective endocarditis, which can be successfully treated with a 6-week regimen of ampicillin and gentamicin in combination with proper surgical treatment.

Keyphrases

aortic valve
transcatheter aortic valve replacement
transcatheter aortic valve implantation
aortic valve replacement
aortic stenosis
biofilm formation
escherichia coli
left ventricular
candida albicans