Austrian Syndrome: A Disease Of The Past?

Abstract

Invasive pneumococcal infection is a re-emerging complication of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection. Austrian syndrome is a rare triad of pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis associated to a very high mortality. We hereby present a case of infective aortic endocarditis in a Caucasian woman with severe heart failure and emergency valve replacement in a patient treated with meningitis and pneumonia.