TY - JOUR ID - 10372 TI - Aortic valve streptococcus group B endocarditis post-extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy JO - ARYA Atherosclerosis Journal JA - ARYA LA - en SN - 1735-3955 AU - Meidani, Mohsen AU - Taghavi, Mahboobeh AU - Abdar Esfahani, Morteza AD - Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran AD - Cardiac Rehabilitation Research Center, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran AD - Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 9 IS - 5 SP - 300 EP - 302 DO - N2 - BACKGROUND: Sub-acute left-sided bacterial endocarditis is a serious condition that may present with variable clinical manifestations. Its symptoms include both sterile and infected emboli, and various immunological phenomena. CASE REPORT: This report presents a 55 year old man with frequency and dysuria after a lithotripsy and several admissions with urosepsis. Due to the suspicion of infective endocarditis echocardiography was done which confirmed streptococcus group B endocarditis. CONCLUSION: Streptococci group B is one of the rare causes of infective endocarditis, but it was observed after various producers such as lithotripsy.   Keywords: Group B Streptococci, Infective Endocarditis, Lithotripsy  UR - https://arya.mui.ac.ir/article_10372.html L1 - https://arya.mui.ac.ir/article_10372_7e2891cd236535422b614edc195f4a16.pdf ER -