A rare infectious complication after endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration in an oncological patient and review of the literature

Abstract

An endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration of a mediastinal lymph node was performed in a cancer patient. Shortly after this procedure, a streptococcus salivarius endocarditis was diagnosed. To our knowledge, this is the first case in the literature of endocarditis following ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration in the absence of cardiac risk factors.