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Infective Endocarditis: Still More Challenges Than Convictions. [PDF]

Arq Bras Cardiol, 2022
© Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution LicenseAfter fourteen decades of medical and technological evolution, infective endocarditis continues to ...
Sousa C, Pinto FJ.
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Endocardite Infecciosa como causa de morte: um estudo populacional em Portugal, de 2002 a 2018 [PDF]

, 2021
Copyright © Ordem dos Médicos 2021Introduction: Infective endocarditis presents a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Population-based studies addressing mortality caused by infective endocarditis in Portugal are scarce. We aimed to study deaths caused
Pinto, Fausto J., Ribeiro, Ruy, Santos de Sousa, Catarina Isabel   +2 more
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Endocardites sépticas: (contribuição etiopatogênica) [PDF]

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1944
In the present paper the A. A. reviewed the more fundamental problems in the ethiopathogenic process of bacterial endocardits and report the bacte¬riological observations done by them in 20 cases of the disecase observed at the Section of Pathological Anatomy and Bacteriology of the Hospital S. Francisco de Assis in charge of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
Lacorte, J. Guilherme, Santos, Mario
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Endocarditis due to Coxiella burnetii (Q fever): a rare or underdiagnosed disease? Case report [PDF]

, 2008
A febre Q é uma zoonose de distribuição mundial causada por Coxiella burnetii, sendo raros os registros da doença no Brasil. Estudos soroepidemiológicos mostraram uma freqüência relativamente elevada de anticorpos contra Coxiella burnetii em populações ...
CASTELLI, Jussara Bianchi, COLOMBO, Silvia, FURTADO, Remo Holanda de Mendonça, GRINBERG, Max, RIBEIRO, Henrique Barbosa, SAMPAIO, Roney Orismar, SANTOS, Fabiana Cristina Pereira dos, SICILIANO, Rinaldo Focaccia, STRABELLI, Tânia Mara Varejão   +8 more
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O peso da endocardite infeciosa em Portugal nos últimos 30 anos : uma revisão sistemática de estudos observacionais [PDF]

, 2021
© 2021 Sociedade Portuguesa de Cardiologia. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. Este é um artigo Open Access sob uma licença CC BY-NC-ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Introduction: Infective endocarditis affects cardiac valves or ...
Pinto, Fausto J., Ribeiro, Ruy, Santos De Sousa, Catarina Isabel   +2 more
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Sepsis due to Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in a Patient with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Associated with Bronchopneumonia due to PSeudomonas aeruginosa And Escherichia coli: A Case Report

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 108-110, 2015., 2015
INTRODUCTION: The present report describes a case of sepsis due to Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae in a patient with B‐cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia with no animal exposure, associated with concomitant bronchopneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli. CASE PRESENTATION: A 54‐year‐old Caucasian man presented to an emergency room with
Victoria Bîrlutiu
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Endocardite a Streptococcus agalactiae

Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, 2012
Resumo: A endocardite a Streptococcus agalactiae é uma entidade clínica rara. A sua apresentação clínica geralmente tem início agudo, com presença de vegetações de grandes dimensões, rápida destruição valvular e complicações frequentes, nomeadamente embolização. A mortalidade permanece elevada quando é apenas adotada terapêutica médica.
Nuno Pelicano, C Machado, Raquel Dourado, Carla Almeida, Dinis Martins, E. Santos   +5 more
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Characterization of Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Patients with Persistent or Recurrent Bacteremia

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 83-86, 2014., 2014
BACKGROUND: Methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bloodstream infections (BSI) are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality, especially with persistent (PB) or recurrent bacteremia (RB). OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of PB and RB in patients with MRSA BSI, and to characterize the isolates from these patients.
Henry Wong, Christine Watt, Sameer Elsayed, Michael John, Glen Johnson, Kevin Katz, Sigmund Krajden, Christine Lee, Tony Mazzulli, Krystyna Ostrowska, David Richardson, Baldwin Toye, Christie Vermeiren, Deborah Yamamura, Andrew E Simor   +14 more
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Chronic Q fever: An ongoing challenge in diagnosis and management

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 35-37, 2014., 2014
Chronic Q fever is a potentially fatal disease. The current difficulty in the diagnosis of this condition is discussed in the present article. A 51‐year‐old woman with a history of aortic valve replacement presented with complaints of feeling generally unwell, pyrexia and occasional unproductive cough over a period of several weeks.
Ira Das, Nicola Guest, Richard Steeds, Peter Hewins   +3 more
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Aerococcus viridans Native Valve Endocarditis

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 155-158, 2013., 2013
Aerococcus viridans is an infrequent human pathogen and few cases of infective endocarditis have been reported. A case involving a 69‐year‐old man with colon cancer and hemicolectomy 14 years previously, without recurrence, is reported. A diagnosis of native mitral valve endocarditis was established on the basis of clinical presentation, characteristic
Wenwan Zhou, Vanessa Nanci, Andreanne Jean, Amir H Salehi, Fahad Altuwaijri, Renzo Cecere, Jacques Genest   +6 more
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