Candid and Fragile: A Case Report of Infective Endocarditis From Candida albicans and Bacteroides fragilis

Abstract

Infective endocarditis (IE) remains a significant cause of mortality worldwide and reported cases are continuing to increase annually. We describe a case of a patient who would undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement complicated by postop gastrointestinal bleeding requiring partial colectomy with ileocolic anastomosis who would later present with fever, dyspnea, and persistently positive blood cultures who would be found to have tricuspid valve endocarditis from Candida and Bacteroides species that was successfully treated with a combination of surgical resection and antimicrobial therapy.