Multivalvular Endocarditis With Granulicatella adiacens in a 2-Year-Old Boy With Ventricular Septal Defect

Christopher Schmitt; Ranjit Philip; Christopher Knott-Craig; Nathan Stecchi; Nithya Swaminathan

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102525

Multivalvular Endocarditis With Granulicatella adiacens in a 2-Year-Old Boy With Ventricular Septal Defect

JACC Case Rep. 2024 Sep 18;29(18):102525. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102525.

Authors

Christopher Schmitt^{1

2}, Ranjit Philip^{1

2}, Christopher Knott-Craig^{1

2}, Nathan Stecchi¹, Nithya Swaminathan^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, Heart Institute, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
² Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Abstract

A 2-year-old boy with a hemodynamically insignificant ventricular septal defect was found to have polyvalvular endocarditis, eventually requiring replacement of the pulmonary and mitral valves with a pulmonary conduit and a mechanical valve. Cultures grew Granulicatella adiacens, listed on the microbiological criterion of the updated Duke International Society for Cardiovascular Infectious Diseases criteria.

Keywords: Duke criteria; infective endocarditis; ventricular septal defects.

Publication types

Case Reports