Burkholderia cepacia Endocarditis in a Patient With Severe Mitral Annular Calcification

Vincent Pepe; Henrietta Afari; Rupal P O'Quinn; Roy Arjoon

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102431

Burkholderia cepacia Endocarditis in a Patient With Severe Mitral Annular Calcification

JACC Case Rep. 2024 Aug 7;29(15):102431. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102431.

Authors

Vincent Pepe^{1

2}, Henrietta Afari^{1

2}, Rupal P O'Quinn², Roy Arjoon²

Affiliations

¹ Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
² Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Abstract

This report presents the case of a 76-year-old woman from Honduras with severe mitral annular calcification and severe aortic stenosis who presented with chest pain and presyncope. She was found to have infective endocarditis with a large abscess on the posterior mitral leaflet secondary to Burkholderia cepacia bacteremia.

Keywords: infective endocarditis; mitral annular calcification; rheumatic heart disease.

Publication types

Case Reports