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A 50-year-old woman with Austrian syndrome was successfully treated with emergency aortic valve replacement and prolonged antibiotic therapy, remaining stable at one-year follow-up.
Case Report (n=1)
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This case highlights the importance of early diagnosis and emergency surgical intervention for pneumococcal endocarditis (Austrian syndrome) to prevent fatal heart failure.
Supports emergency AVR in Austrian syndrome; leaves open need for prospective data on generalizability.
Invasive pneumococcal infection is a re-emerging complication of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. Austrian syndrome is a rare triad of pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis associated to a very high mortality. We hereby present a case of infective aortic endocarditis in a Caucasian woman with severe heart failure and emergency valve replacement in a patient treated with meningitis and pneumonia.
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Joaquin Joaquin (2014) conducted a case report in Austrian syndrome (pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis, and endocarditis) (n=1). Emergency aortic valve replacement and antibiotic therapy was evaluated on Survival and clinical stability. A 50-year-old woman with Austrian syndrome was successfully treated with emergency aortic valve replacement and prolonged antibiotic therapy, remaining stable at one-year follow-up.
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