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Volume 30, Number 10—October 2024
Research Letter

Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis Caused by Pasteurella dagmatis, Germany

Felix A. RottmannComments to Author , Peter Schorle, Roland Giesen, and Christoph Jäger
Author affiliation: University of Freiburg Faculty of Medicine, Freiburg, Germany

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Preoperative contrast-enhanced computed tomography (sagittal) of an 81-year-old male patient in Germany who had Pasteurella dagmatis infection after a domestic cat bite, indicating a paravalvular abscess of 24 × 14 × 31 mm. The large abscess near his mechanical valve, combined with P. dagmatis bacteria in blood cultures, confirmed a diagnosis of infective endocarditis based on Duke criteria (7).

Figure. Preoperative contrast-enhanced computed tomography (sagittal) of an 81-year-old male patient in Germany who had Pasteurella dagmatis infection after a domestic cat bite, indicating a paravalvular abscess of 24 × 14 × 31 mm. The large abscess near his mechanical valve, combined with P. dagmatis bacteria in blood cultures, confirmed a diagnosis of infective endocarditis based on Duke criteria (7).

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