A mechanic with a bad valve: Blood-culture-negative endocarditis

Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 777-784

  Albrich, Werner C ^a,b   Kraft, Colleen ^a   Fisk, Tamara ^a   Albrecht, Helmut ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b USA ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CONVALESCENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FATIGUE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; NIGHT SWEAT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKER;

EID: 9644278270     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(04)01226-5     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Werner AS, Cobbs CG, Kaye D, Hook EW. Studies on the bacteremia of bacterial endocarditis. JAMA. 202:1967;127-131
2. Lepidi H, Durack DT, Raoult D. Diagnostic methods: current best practices and guidelines for histologic evaluation in infective endocarditis. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 16:2002;339-361
3. Cannady MPB, Sanford JP. Negative blood cultures in infective endocarditis: a review. South Med J. 69:1976;1420-1424
4. von Reyn CF, Levy BS, Arbeit RD, Friedland G, Crumpacker CS. Infective endocarditis: an analysis based on strict case definitions. Ann Intern Med. 94:1981;505-518
5. Hoen B, Alla F, Selton-Suty C, et al. Changing profile of infective endocarditis: results of a 1-year survey in France. JAMA. 288:2002;75-81
6. Lamas CC, Eykyn SJ. Blood culture negative endocarditis: analysis of 63 cases presenting over 25 years. Heart. 89:2003;258-262
7. Werner M, Andersson R, Olaison L, Hogevik H. A clinical study of culture-negative endocarditis. Medicine (Baltimore). 82:2003;263-273
8. Zamorano J, Sanz J, Almeria C, et al. Differences between endocarditis with true negative blood cultures and those with previous antibiotic treatment. J Heart Valve Dis. 12:2003;256-260
9. Li JS, Sexton DJ, Mick N, et al. Proposed modifications to the Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Clin Infect Dis. 30:2000;633-638
10. Fournier PE, Casalta JP, Habib G, Messana T, Raoult D. Modification of the diagnostic criteria proposed by the Duke Endocarditis Service to permit improved diagnosis of Q fever endocarditis. Am J Med. 100:1996;629-633
11. Hoen B, Selton-Suty C, Lacassin F, et al. Infective endocarditis in patients with negative blood cultures: analysis of 88 cases from a one-year nationwide survey in France. Clin Infect Dis. 20:1995;501-506
12. Joffe II, Jacobs LE, Owen AN, Ioli A, Kotler MN. Noninfective valvular masses: review of the literature with emphasis on imaging techniques and management. Am Heart J. 131:1996;1175-1183
13. Brouqui P, Raoult D. Endocarditis due to rare and fastidious bacteria. Clin Microbiol Rev. 14:2001;177-201
14. Das M, Badley AD, Cockerill FR, Steckelberg JM, Wilson WR. Infective endocarditis caused by HACEK microorganisms. Annu Rev Med. 48:1997;25-33
15. Reimer LG, Wilson ML, Weinstein MP. Update on detection of bacteremia and fungemia. Clin Microbiol Rev. 10:1997;444-465
16. Houpikian P, Raoult D. Diagnostic methods: current best practices and guidelines for identification of difficult-to-culture pathogens in infective endocarditis. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 16:2002;377-392
17. Berbari EF, Cockerill FR, Steckelberg JM. Infective endocarditis due to unusual or fastidious microorganisms. Mayo Clin Proc. 72:1997;532-542
18. Bouvet A. Human endocarditis due to nutritionally variant streptococci: Streptococcus adjacens and Streptococcus defectivus. Eur Heart J. 16 (suppl B):1995;24-27
19. Fournier PE, Lelievre H, Eykyn SJ, et al. Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of Bartonella quintana and Bartonella henselae endocarditis. A study of 48 patients. Medicine (Baltimore). 80:2001;245-251
20. Lamas CC, Eykyn SJ. Bicuspid aortic valve - a silent danger: analysis of 50 cases of infective endocarditis. Clin Infect Dis. 30:2000;336-341
21. Raoult D, Fournier PE, Vandenesch F, et al. Outcome and treatment of Bartonella endocarditis. Arch Intern Med. 163:2003;226-230
22. Scola La, Raoult D. Culture of Bartonella quintana and Bartonella henselae from human samples: a 5-year experience (1993-1998). J Clin Microbiol. 37:1999;1899-1905
23. Levy PY, Fournier PE, Carta M, Raoult D. Pericardial effusion in a homeless man due to Bartonella quintana. J Clin Microbiol. 41:2003;5291-5293
24. Hensel DM, Slater LN. The genus Bartonella. Clin Microbiol News. 17:1995;9-14
25. Fournier PE, Mainardi JL, Raoult D. Value of microimmunofluorescence for diagnosis and follow-up of Bartonella endocarditis. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 9:2002;795-801
26. Maurin M, Raoult D. Q fever. Clin Microbiol Rev. 12:1999;518-553
27. Raoult D, Fournier PE, Drancourt M, et al. Diagnosis of 22 new cases of Bartonella endocarditis. Ann Intern Med. 125:1996;646-652
28. Fernandez-Guerrero ML. Zoonotic endocarditis. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 7:1993;135-152
29. McAllister HA, Fenoglio JJ. Cardiac involvement in Whipple's disease. Circulation. 52:1975;152-156
30. Gubler JG, Kuster M, Dutly F, et al. Whipple endocarditis without overt gastrointestinal disease: report of four cases. Ann Intern Med. 131:1999;112-116
31. Raoult D. Afebrile blood culture-negative endocarditis. Ann Intern Med. 131:1999;144-146
32. Pierrotti LC, Baddour LM. Fungal endocarditis, 1995-2000. Chest. 122:2002;302-310
33. Brook I. Endocarditis due to anaerobic bacteria. Cardiology. 98:2002;1-5
34. Grange JM. Mycobacterial infections following heart valve replacement. J Heart Valve Dis. 1:1992;102-109
35. Raoult D, Vestris G, Enea M. Isolation of 16 strains of Coxiella burnetii from patients by using a sensitive centrifugation cell culture system and establishment of the strains in HEL cells. J Clin Microbiol. 28:1990;2482-2484
36. Thiele H, Hambrecht R, Lauer B, Weinert M, Mohr FW, Schuler G. Diagnostic value of intraoperative swabs of heart valves in infective endocarditis. J Heart Valve Dis. 10:2001;129-135
37. Maguina C, Gotuzzo E. Emerging and re-emerging diseases in Latin America. Bartonellosis. New and old. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 14:2000;1-22
38. Lepidi H, Fournier PE, Raoult D. Quantitative analysis of valvular lesions during bartonella endocarditis. Am J Clin Pathol. 114:2000;880-889
39. Knobloch J, Bialek R, Muller G, Asmus P. Common surface epitope of Bartonella bacilliformis and Chlamydia psittaci. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 39:1988;427-433
40. Rothman RE, Majmudar MD, Kelen GD, et al. Detection of bacteremia in emergency department patients at risk for infective endocarditis using universal 16S rRNA primers in a decontaminated polymerase chain reaction assay. J Infect Dis. 186:2002;1677-1681
41. Bosshard PP, Kronenberg A, Zbinden R, Ruef C, Bottger EC, Altwegg M. Etiologic diagnosis of infective endocarditis by broad-range polymerase chain reaction: a 3-year experience. Clin Infect Dis. 37:2003;167-172
42. Gauduchon V, Chalabreysse L, Etienne J, et al. Molecular diagnosis of infective endocarditis by PCR amplification and direct sequencing of DNA from valve tissue. J Clin Microbiol. 41:2003;763-766
43. Bayer AS, Scheld WM. Endocarditis and intravascular infections. Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R. Mandell, Douglas and Bennett's principles and practice of infectious diseases. 5th edn:2000;857-902 Churchill Livingstone, Philadelphia
44. Rolain JM, Maurin M, Raoult D. Bactericidal effect of antibiotics on Bartonella and Brucella spp.: clinical implications. J Antimicrob Chemother. 46:2000;811-814
45. Van Scoy RE. Culture-negative endocarditis. Mayo Clin Proc. 57:1982;149-154
46. Pesanti EL, Smith IM. Infective endocarditis with negative blood cultures. An analysis of 52 cases. Am J Med. 66:1979;43-50