TY -的A2 Sipahi它r . AU - Emmanouilidou,Georgia AU - Voukelatou, Panagiota AU - Vrettos, Ioannis AU - Aftzi, Vasileia AU - Dodos, Konstantinos AU - Koumpouli, Despoina AU - Avgeropoulos, George AU - Kalliakmanis, Andreas PY - 2019 DA - 2019/01/02 TI - A Case Report of Successful Conservative Treatment for Infective Endocarditis Caused byGemella sanguinisSP - 9382395 VL - 2019 AB - Infective endocarditis is defined as an infection of a native or prosthetic heart valve, the endocardial surface of the heart, or an indwelling cardiac device. Among the miscellaneous emerging opportunistic bacteria that can cause infective endocarditis is Gemella sanguinisthat has been reported as a cause of infective endocarditis in nine cases in the past. All of the survivors received antimicrobial therapy and underwent prosthetic valve replacement surgery while, in general, a proportion of 40–50% of the patients with infective endocarditis underwent valve surgery. Our case illustrates that valve surgery, in combination with the administration of antibiotics, is not the only therapeutic option for infective endocarditis due to Gemella sanguinisand that a conservative management with prolonged administration of parenteral antibiotics under close supervision of the patient can be an option. SN - 2090-6625 UR - https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/9382395 DO - 10.1155/2019/9382395 JF - Case Reports in Infectious Diseases PB - Hindawi KW - ER -