ClinicShort Letter | DOI: https://doi.org/10.31579/2834-8486/028
A Patient who was Diabetic Presented with Symptoms of Endocarditis
- Solomons HD *
Hematology, Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Ormonde, Johannesburg, South Africa.
*Corresponding Author: Solomons, Hematology, Pathology, University of the Witwatersrand, Ormonde, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Citation: Solomons HD, (2024), A Patient who was Diabetic Presented with Symptoms of Endocarditis, Biomedical and Clinical Research. 4(1); DOI: 10.31579/2834-8486/028
Copyright: © 2024, Solomons HD. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Received: 29 January 2025 | Accepted: 14 February 2025 | Published: 19 February 2025
Keywords: patient; diabetic; symptoms; endocarditis; HIV/AIDS
Abstract
The patient presented with the full clinical spectrum of infective endocarditis, including Roth spots, splenomegaly, changing cardiac murmurs, and splinter hemorrhages. Based on these classical features, an initial diagnosis of acute or subacute bacterial endocarditis was considered. However, subsequent fungal cultures revealed Torulopsis glabrata as the causative organism, establishing a diagnosis of fungal endocarditis. Although Candida albicans remains the most frequently isolated fungal pathogen associated with valvular vegetations, infections due to Torulopsis (Candida) glabrata have also been reported, albeit less commonly.
