Successful treatment of Staphylococcus epidermidis prosthetic valve endocarditis with linezolid after failure of treatment with oxacillin, gentamicin, rifampicin, vancomycin, and fusidic acid regimens

P. W. de Feiter From the Department of Surgery and Intensive Care, University Hospital Maastricht, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]

J. A. Jacobs Department of Microbiology, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands

M. J. H. M. Jacobs Department of Surgery and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands

C. Vink Department of Microbiology, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands

S. van der Geest Department of Internal Medicine and Intensive Care, University Hospital Maastricht, The Netherlands

Abstract

We present a 49-y-old male, with a history of Marfan's disease and aortic and mitral valve replacement surgery, who was operated for a type III thoracoabdominal aneurysm. The postoperative course was compromized by a Staphylococcus epidermidis mitral valve endocarditis, which was successfully treated only after intravenous linezolid was included in the therapy.

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