• Internal medicine · Jan 2007

    Review Case Reports

    Recurrent prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus aureus colonizing skin lesions in severe atopic dermatitis.

    • Takeshi Yamamoto, Kenji Yodogawa, Satoshi Wakita, Michio Ogano, Miwa Tokita, Yasuo Miyagi, Naoki Sato, Takashi Nitta, Keiji Tanaka, and Teruo Takano.
    • Intensive and Cardiac Care Unit, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan. yamamoto56@nms.ac.jp <yamamoto56@nms.ac.jp>
    • Intern. Med. 2007 Jan 1; 46 (9): 571-3.

    AbstractInfective endocarditis, a serious infection most commonly affecting rheumatic or prosthetic valves, generally occurs after bacteremia. Atopic dermatitis, a very common disease, carries a high prevalence of skin infections, particularly with Staphylococcus aureus. While cutaneous colonization by S. aureus represents an important source of bacteremia, few cases of infective endocarditis arising from the skin lesions of atopic dermatitis have been reported. We describe a patient with recurrent S. aureus prosthetic valve endocarditis developing in this manner.

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