Moxarella Lacunate Endocarditis

Sowjanya Dasari, Ranjan K Shetty, Tom Devasia

Abstract

We describe a case of infective endocarditis due to Moraxella lacunata involving the native mitral and aortic valves, complicated by cerebral emboli and resultant hemiparesis. The patient was treated with ceftriaxone and gentamicin and improved. This is the first case reported in medical literature of native multivalvular endocarditis produced by this rare organism.
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