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Case Report: Heart Transplantation for Refractory Candida tropicalis Endocarditis: A Case Report and Literature Review [PDF]
MicroorganismsCandida infective endocarditis presents therapeutic challenges with high mortality. A complex case of Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis refractory to standard antifungals (anidulafungin and fluconazole) and high-dose caspofungin was successfully ...
Ricardo El Nouwar +6 more
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Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2012 Lyme borreliosis is a common tick-borne disease with a wide variety of clinical manifestations. Cardiac involvement has been reported during both the acute phase (atrioventricular block, pericarditis) and the chronic stage (dilated cardiomyopathy), but is rare (
S. J. De Martino +9 more
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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2016 Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare, life-threatening disease that has long-lasting effects even among patients who survive and are cured. IE disproportionately affects those with underlying structural heart disease and is increasingly associated with health care contact, particularly in patients who have intravascular prosthetic material.
Holland, Thomas +5 more
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Bacteraemia Following Different Orthodontic Treatment Procedure
مجلة كلية الطب, 2009 Background: since the occurrence of transient bacteraemia is fatal following different dental procedures in patients at-risk of bacterial endocarditis, the purpose of this research was to estimate the percentage and nature of bacteraemia following four ...
Mustafa M. Al-Khatieeb
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Case Series of Three Patients with Disseminated Gonococcal Infection and Endocarditis
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2021 Introduction: The increasing incidence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections and emergence of cephalosporin-resistant strains means the threat of disseminated gonococcal infection and endocarditis needs to be reimagined into the differential diagnosis for ...
Phillip Moschella +4 more
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Association of recurrent fever and anemia with infective endocarditis in a 13-year-old girl with bicuspid aortic valve [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2022 Introduction. Infective endocarditis is relatively rare in pediatric population, but can result in significant morbidity and mortality. Children with bicuspid aortic valve are at higher risk of developing infective endocarditis as compared to the general
Petrović Vesna +2 more
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Journal of Cardiology Cases, 2016 Blood culture-negative endocarditis presents a clinical and diagnostic challenge. Here, we describe a patient with a delayed diagnosis of Bartonella henselae endocarditis. .
Ghashghaei, Roxana +3 more
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Incidence of Bacterial Endocarditis after Heart Valves Replacement Surgery in Mashhad (from 2012 to 2016) [PDF]
Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2022 Introduction: Bacterial endocarditis is one of the high mortality complications after the valve surgery. Despite the medical advancements, the mortality rate of Bacterial Endocarditis has not been decreased.
Atefeh Ghorbanzadeh +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Most patients with infective endocarditis (IE) manifest fever. Comparison of endocarditis patients with and without fever, and whether the lack of fever in IE is a marker for poorer outcomes, such as demonstrated in other severe infectious diseases, have not been defined.Cases from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, Division of Infectious Diseases ...
Daniel C DeSimone +6 more
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