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권종규 ( Jong Kyu Kwon ),권혁용 ( Hyuck Yong Kwon ),은동엽 ( Dong Yeub Eun ),이재광 ( Jae Gwang Lee ),이경숙 ( Kyoung Suk Lee ),최진우 ( Jin Woo Choi ),권기태 ( Ki Tae Kwon ) 대한내과학회 2010 대한내과학회지 Vol.78 No.1
Streptococcus pneumoniae is an infrequent cause of infective endocarditis in the penicillin era. This infection typically follows pneumonia in the setting of chronic alcoholism and may be complicated by meningitis. Only one adult case of pneumococcal endocarditis (PE) has been reported in Korea. We report the case of a 73-year-old woman who suffered from PE complicated by embolic cerebral infarction and meningitis. This is the first Korean case of PE complicated with meningitis. The patient was treated medically and died from a cardiac complication. This case shows that PE is difficult to treat without surgery because its evolution is usually acute and very aggressive; it has a high rate of local and systemic complications despite the administration of appropriate antibiotics. (Korean J Med 78:138-143, 2010)