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Endocarditis, Infectious

Streptococcus bovis infectious endocarditis and occult gastrointestinal neoplasia: experience with 25 consecutive patients treated surgically

Streptococcus bovis infectious endocarditis and occult gastrointestinal neoplasia: experience with 25 consecutive patients treated surgically

... Streptococcus bovis (S. bovis), is a commensal inhabitant of the human digestive tract. It may be isolated in up to 35 % of fecal samples from human rectal swab [1]. Since the first remarkable case of the association ...

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Kocuria kristinae septic arthritis associated with infectious endocarditis in a hemodialysis patient with diabetes mellitus: a case report and literature review

Kocuria kristinae septic arthritis associated with infectious endocarditis in a hemodialysis patient with diabetes mellitus: a case report and literature review

... (10.2 %), other conditions (14.8 %), and unknown causes (28.9 %) [20]. Thus, given the frequency of an unknown cause of FUO, we usually use empirical antibiotics to treat infections of unknown origin until culture ...

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Evaluation of Commercial Universal rRNA Gene PCR plus Sequencing Tests for Identification of Bacteria and Fungi Associated with Infectious Endocarditis

Evaluation of Commercial Universal rRNA Gene PCR plus Sequencing Tests for Identification of Bacteria and Fungi Associated with Infectious Endocarditis

... Two new commercially available universal rRNA gene PCR plus sequencing tests, SepsiTest and universal microbe detection (UMD; Molzym, Bremen, Germany), were evaluated using blood specimens and heart valves from 30 ...

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Proteinase 3 antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positive necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis complicated by infectious endocarditis: a case report

Proteinase 3 antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody positive necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis complicated by infectious endocarditis: a case report

... infective endocarditis, previ- ous studies suggested antibiotic monotherapy for patients with low PR3-ANCA titers (< 25 IU/ml) and combination therapy with immunosuppressive agents, including ste- roids for ...

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Endocarditis Caused by Rhodotorula Infection

Endocarditis Caused by Rhodotorula Infection

... valve endocarditis requiring bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement 9 years prior, as well as end-stage renal disease status following renal transplantation which had failed several years ...

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The Care of Children With Congenital Heart Disease in Their Primary Medical Home

The Care of Children With Congenital Heart Disease in Their Primary Medical Home

... an infectious disease specialist may be considered to identify an appropriate vaccination strategy, because some patients should not receive live-virus ...21 Endocarditis prevention ...

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Western Immunoblotting for Bartonella Endocarditis

Western Immunoblotting for Bartonella Endocarditis

... Bartonella spp. are gram-negative, short-rod bacteria belong- ing to the ␣2 subclass of Proteobacteria. Common features of Bartonella include transmission by an arthropod vector and persistence within mammalian reservoir ...

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Q fever endocarditis masquerading as Mixed cryoglobulinemia type II  A case report and review of the literature

Q fever endocarditis masquerading as Mixed cryoglobulinemia type II A case report and review of the literature

... As the clinical manifestations and laboratory data of our patient dictated, we pursued ruling out infective endocar- ditis and various other infectious causes of mixed type II cryoglobulinemia. Blood and urine ...

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Infective endocarditis in the Pacific: clinical characteristics, treatment and long-term outcomes

Infective endocarditis in the Pacific: clinical characteristics, treatment and long-term outcomes

... New Caledonia, located in the southwest Paci fi c Ocean, is a special collectivity of France, with a population of approximately 250 000 inhabitants. 11 Rheumatic heart disease remains prevalent among indigenous ...

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Laboratory Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

Laboratory Diagnosis of Infective Endocarditis

... potential endocarditis are wel- comed, as this will likely reduce rates of culture-negative ...of endocarditis, two sets may be adequate if properly performed ...negative endocarditis where valvular ...

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A Study of Infective Endocarditis in Malta

A Study of Infective Endocarditis in Malta

... IE can present with various symptoms and signs. Chills and rigors, low appetite and weight loss are the commonest symptoms. Fever is the commonest symptom as it is present in 90% of patients followed by heart murmurs ...

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Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management

... Infective endocarditis can present by its own signs and symptoms or by one of its ...infective endocarditis as its main ...infective endocarditis cannot be ruled out, especially if the clinical ...

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Eustachian valve endocarditis: a rare localization of right side endocarditis. A case report and review of the literature

Eustachian valve endocarditis: a rare localization of right side endocarditis. A case report and review of the literature

... used as a revaluation study in the presence of a worsening in the clinical status of the patient [7]. The diagnosis of EVE was occasional and the treatment of the solely tricus- pid endocarditis would not have ...

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Surgery in current therapy for infective endocarditis

Surgery in current therapy for infective endocarditis

... should be reminded that data is from the Society of Tho- racic Surgeons (STS) database in which .19,000 patients surgically treated for IE were analyzed to relate baseline characteristics to 30-day outcomes. The database ...

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Unique Features of Infective Endocarditis in Childhood

Unique Features of Infective Endocarditis in Childhood

... Blood cultures are indicated for all patients with fever of unexplained origin and a pathologic heart murmur, a history of heart disease, or previous en- docarditis. Since bacteremia in patients with IE is usually ...

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Unusual cardiovascular complications of brucellosis presenting in two men: two case reports and a review of the literature

Unusual cardiovascular complications of brucellosis presenting in two men: two case reports and a review of the literature

... Accordingly, a diagnosis of Brucella-related asympto- matic pericardial effusion in the absence of concomitant endocarditis was made and specific treatment with anti- biotics only was started immediately. Our ...

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Infective Endocarditis in non-cardiac patients

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, and the ...

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INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS: A lO-YEAR STUDY IN SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS

INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS: A lO-YEAR STUDY IN SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS

... culture-negative endocarditis of having received antibiotics before ...positive endocarditis arc caused by staphylococci and ...staphylococc,� endocarditis has increased in recent years, and ulis has ...

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Infective endocarditis and antibiotic prophylaxis

Infective endocarditis and antibiotic prophylaxis

... The current NICE guidance (1) on antibiotic prophylaxis for endocarditis (IE) chose to deviate from US and European guidelines (2,3). These, unlike NICE, continue to recommend antibiotics before high-risk dental ...

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