Mycobacterium chimaera Infection After Cardiac Surgery: First Canadian Outbreak. 2017

Raphael Hamad, and Pierre-Emmanuel Noly, and Louis P Perrault, and Michel Pellerin, and Philippe Demers
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

Recently reported in Europe and United States, disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera infection is a novel clinical entity linked to point contamination of Stockert 3T heater-cooler units used for cardiopulmonary bypass. We present here the first two cases in Canada. Both patients presented with nonspecific extracardiac symptoms 1 year after undergoing minimally invasive mitral surgical repair. Before the right diagnosis was established, the patients were initially treated with prednisone for suspected sarcoidosis. One patient is currently improving, and the other needed mitral valve repair despite aggressive treatment. Because of the nonspecific mode and timing of presentation, a high index of suspicion is necessary for the diagnosis of M. chimaera infection.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D009165 Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous Infections with nontuberculous mycobacteria (atypical mycobacteria): M. kansasii, M. marinum, M. scrofulaceum, M. flavescens, M. gordonae, M. obuense, M. gilvum, M. duvali, M. szulgai, M. intracellulare (see MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX;), M. xenopi (littorale), M. ulcerans, M. buruli, M. terrae, M. fortuitum (minetti, giae), M. chelonae, M. leprae. Mycobacterium Infections, Atypical,Atypical Mycobacterial Infection, Disseminated,Atypical Mycobacterial Infection, Familial Disseminated,Atypical Mycobacteriosis, Familial,Atypical Mycobacteriosis, Familial Disseminated,Atypical Mycobacterium Infections,Infections, Atypical Mycobacterium,Mycobacterium abscessus Infection,Atypical Mycobacterium Infection,Familial Atypical Mycobacterioses,Familial Atypical Mycobacteriosis,Infection, Mycobacterium abscessus,Infections, Mycobacterium abscessus,Mycobacterioses, Familial Atypical,Mycobacteriosis, Familial Atypical,Mycobacterium Infection, Atypical,Mycobacterium Infection, Nontuberculous,Mycobacterium abscessus Infections,Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Infection,Nontuberculous Mycobacterium Infections
D009170 Nontuberculous Mycobacteria So-called atypical species of the genus MYCOBACTERIUM that do not cause tuberculosis. They are also called tuberculoid bacilli, i.e.: M. abscessus, M. buruli, M. chelonae, M. duvalii, M. flavescens, M. fortuitum, M. gilvum, M. gordonae, M. intracellulare (see MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM COMPLEX;), M. kansasii, M. marinum, M. obuense, M. scrofulaceum, M. szulgai, M. terrae, M. ulcerans, M. xenopi. Atypical Mycobacteria,Mycobacteria, Atypical,Mycobacterium duvalii,Mycobacterium flavescens,Mycobacterium gilvum,Mycobacterium gordonae,Mycobacterium obuense,Mycobacterium szulgai,Mycobacterium terrae,Mycolicibacter terrae,Mycolicibacterium duvalii,Mycolicibacterium flavescens,Mycolicibacterium gilvum,Mycolicibacterium obuense,Tuberculoid Bacillus,Atypical Mycobacterium,Mycobacterium, Atypical,Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria,Nontuberculous Mycobacterium
D011792 Quebec A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440)
D004196 Disease Outbreaks Sudden increase in the incidence of a disease. The concept includes EPIDEMICS and PANDEMICS. Outbreaks,Infectious Disease Outbreaks,Disease Outbreak,Disease Outbreak, Infectious,Disease Outbreaks, Infectious,Infectious Disease Outbreak,Outbreak, Disease,Outbreak, Infectious Disease,Outbreaks, Disease,Outbreaks, Infectious Disease
D005260 Female Females
D006348 Cardiac Surgical Procedures Surgery performed on the heart. Cardiac Surgical Procedure,Heart Surgical Procedure,Heart Surgical Procedures,Procedure, Cardiac Surgical,Procedure, Heart Surgical,Procedures, Cardiac Surgical,Procedures, Heart Surgical,Surgical Procedure, Cardiac,Surgical Procedure, Heart,Surgical Procedures, Cardiac,Surgical Procedures, Heart
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults

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