bacterial endocarditis
THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES FOR STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS INFECTIONS: RECURRENT BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS IN A CHILD WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
... INFECTIONS: RECURRENT BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS IN A CHILD WITH THERAPEUTIC PRINCIPLES FOR STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS. Services[r] ...
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Culture-negative subacute bacterial endocarditis masquerades as granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener’s granulomatosis) involving both the kidney and lung
... Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) occasionally exhibits positive cytoplasmic anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (c-ANCA) of the anti-proteinase-3 (PR-3) ...
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“APPLICATION OF REVERSE VACCINOLOGY IN DESIGNING A COMMON VACCINE FOR BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS” by Menakha .M* and C. Manoharan, India.
... Bacterial endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner surface of the heart and heart valves caused by a group of oral bacteria, usually found in the ...Infective endocarditis is a life-threatening ...
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Molecular diagnosis of bacterial endocarditis by broad range PCR amplification and direct sequencing
... ever, in 2.5 to 31% of cases, depending on the study, the etiologic agent remains unidentified (28). By means of culture- independent, broad-range amplification methods, a number of fastidious, ...
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PCR Detection of Bacteria on Cardiac Valves of Patients with Treated Bacterial Endocarditis
... that bacterial DNA is cleared from the tissue sites of animals after bacterial death but that the DNAs from different pathogens may have different kinetics at different ...though bacterial DNA seems ...
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RHEUMATOID FACTOR, COMPLEMENT, AND CONGLUTININ ABERRATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS
... Sera from approximately 50 per cent of these patients contained rheumatoid factor activity as confirmed by the latex fixation test, sensitized sheep-cell test, precipitin curves with agg[r] ...
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SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF C. DIPHTHERIAE SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS WITH PENICILLIN AND STREPTOMYCIN
... Sensitivity tests on the organism which were carried on during this interval revealed: penicillin sensitivity, 0.05 u/mI.; streptomycin, 3.0 u/mI.; and Na- sulfadiazine, 5.0 mg./100 ml..[r] ...
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Bacterial Endocarditis Caused by Vitamin B6-Dependent Viridans Group Streptococcus
... if a Be-dependent viridans group Streptococcus is isolated from a patient with endocarditis, therapy should be initiated with penicillin and an aminogly- coside until sensitivities are a[r] ...
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Prevention of Bacterial Endocarditis
... In those patients who are at particularly high risk for endocarditis (eg, those with prosthetic heart valves or surgically constructed systemic-pul- monary shunts), the Committee favors [r] ...
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Serum opsonin, bacteria, and polymorphonuclear leukocyte interactions in subacute bacterial endocarditis: Anti γ globulin factors and their interaction with specific opsonins
... If RF derived from the immune SBE serum autologous or isolated from a serum of a rheumatoid arthritis patient homologous was added to bacteria which had been washed after incubation with[r] ...
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A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Bacterial Endocarditis Prophylaxis for Febrile Children Who Have Cardiac Lesions and Undergo Urinary Catheterization in the Emergency Department
... Each decision branch includes chance events with their proba- bilities for occurrence. Those who undergo UC with antibiotics are subject to adverse reactions, which can be mild, severe, or fatal. For both strategies, if ...
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BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS IN CHILDREN WITH HEART DISEASE
... patients with endocarditis due to this organism recovered; two of these had developed positive blood cultures after surgical closure of patent. ductus arteriosus[r] ...
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BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS IN AN INFANT PRESENTING AS ACUTE CARDIAC TAMPONADE
... FIG. Electrocardiogram taken December 31... Note destruction of right pulmonic semilunar valve, with bacterial vegetation in tile.. sinus arteriae pulmonalis.1[r] ...
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BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS IN CHILDREN WITH HEART DISEASE
... MI. =mitral insufficiency; MS. =mitral stenosis; A!. =aortic insufficiency; AS. 004 Penicillin ioo. of Fallot 1 wk a-strep. of FalJot+shunt Swk a-strep. of Fallot 1 mo -strep. parainflue[r] ...
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Incidence of Postextraction Bacteremia Under Penicillin Cover in Children with Cardiac Disease
... these techniques, we found an incidence of postex- traction bacteremia of 21% in children with cardiac disease, who were at risk of developing bacterial endocarditis and were receiving p[r] ...
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Echocardiographic Diagnosis of Heart Disease in Apparently Healthy Adolescents
... Results. A physical examination performed by a board-certified pediatrician reported no cardiac abnor- malities. However, echocardiography and Doppler stud- ies identified 13 (3.6%) children (7 males and 6 females), with ...
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Bacterial adherence in the pathogenesis of endocarditis Interaction of bacterial dextran, platelets, and fibrin
... of bacterial endocarditis was investigated by studying the adherence of dextran producing oral streptococci to the constituents of nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) in vitro and in ...
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Infective Endocarditis in non-cardiac patients
... Infective endocarditis (IE) is an uncommon but life-threatening infection and features of bacterial endocarditis are due to bacteremia, local cardiac invasion by organisms, peripheral embolization, ...
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Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science
... non-bacterial endocarditis and focal areas of myonecrosis (carditis), the kidney acute glomerulo- tubular necrosis (acute renal failure) and the liver acute non- bacterial hepatocellular inflammation ...
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RELATION OF DURATION OF BED REST IN ACUTE RHEUMATIC FEVER TO HEART DISEASE PRESENT 2 TO 14 YEARS LATER
... cocci, the number of rheumatic recurrences, chronic myocarditis and intervening suba- cute bacterial endocarditis, the age distri- bution of patients, and the number of years in the foll[r] ...
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