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Positive real-time PCR in pneumococcal meningitis 12 hours after initiation of antibiotic therapy – case report [PDF]

BMC Neurology
Background Purulent meningitis poses a significant clinical challenge with high mortality. We present the case of a 54-year-old female transferred to our emergency department with suspected bacterial meningitis, later diagnosed as an Austrian syndrome ...
Cem Thunstedt, Carla Palleis, Johannes Wischmann, Suzette Heck, Konstantinos Dimitriadis, Matthias Klein   +5 more
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A classic and fatal case of Streptococcus mutans subacute bacterial endocarditis; A now potentially underappreciated disease

IDCases, 2020
Acute bacterial endocarditis is now common and easily suspected and recognized in the setting of prosthetic valves, injection drug use, or bacteremia with virulent organisms.
SA Schmalzle
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Roth spots: A window to underlying systemic conditions

TNOA Journal of Ophthalmic Science and Research, 2020
Roth spots are white-centered hemorrhages which can be the first clinical presentation of an underlying systemic disorder such as subacute bacterial endocarditis, leukemia, and anemia.
Sashwanthi Mohan, Mohan Rajan
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Subacute bacterial endocarditis [PDF]

Medical Journal of Australia, 1921
Richards, William Gwernwy
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Pneumococcal endocarditis of subacute evolution

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2001
With the development of penicillin, Streptococcus pneumoniae has become an uncommon cause of bacterial endocarditis in adults. Subacute manifestation of pneumococcal endocarditis has been reported a few times in the literature, but most reports define ...
Laercio Uemura, Newton César Grassi, Luciane Cazarin   +2 more
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Immune-Complex Allergic Vasculitis in Association with the Immune-Complex Allergic Vasculitis in Association with the Development of Transverse Myelitis: A Case Report [PDF]

, 1996
A severe vasculitis, probably therapy related, in a sixty-four-year-old man being treated for possible subacute bacterial endocarditis, was associated with the development of transverse myelitis.
Günter Pilz, Lie JT, Paine RS, Sigrid Nikol, Tanya Y. Huehns, Wolfgang von Scheidt   +5 more
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Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) due to Streptococcus gordonii

Microbiologia Medica, 2009
Endocarditis is an inflammatory state of the endothelium that promotes thrombus formation and tissue damage on the surface of heart valves. Recent studies have reported endocarditis mortality rates ranging from 12% to 46% (2008).
Raffaella Battista, Adriana Raddi, Francesco Labonia, Marcello Raffone, Alessia Sommella, Marina Pedicelli, Michele Di Cecio, Riccardo Smeraglia   +7 more
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Acute myocardial infarction as the first sign of infective endocarditis: a case report

Journal of International Medical Research, 2020
Infective endocarditis is a bacterial or fungal infection of the heart valves or endocardial surface, and it frequently forms vegetation and can lead to systemic embolism.
Jian Zhao, Jing Yang, Wei Chen, Xiaomin Yang, Yaoting Liu, Xiaoliang Cong, Zhigang Huang, Na Li   +7 more
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Mild stroke symptoms as the initial presentation of a patient with underlying subacute bacterial endocarditis

Clinics and Practice, 2011
We describe a patient with sub-acute bacterial endocarditis, whose chief presenting feature was mild expressive dysphasia.
Ami Kamdar, Michael Debney, James Scott, Diane Ames   +3 more
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Subacute bacterial endocarditis with vasculitis-like presentation; report of a case and literature review [PDF]

Journal of Nephropathology, 2020
Infective endocarditis is a diagnostic challenge since it could manifest as a systemic disease mimicking rheumatologic disorders by immunological mechanisms.
Tayebeh Soleymanian, Hoda Kavosi
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