Prophylactic Antibiotics for Prevention of Infective Endocarditis or Bacteremia in Pediatric Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Dental Procedures: Systematic Review. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Aim To assess the effectiveness of prophylactic antibiotics in preventing infective endocarditis (IE) after dental procedures in pediatric patients with congenital heart disease. Methods Six electronic databases and grey literature were searched for randomized controlled trials (RCTs), case‐control studies, and cohort studies in pediatric ...
Loper C +3 more
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Embolic Stroke as a Complication of <i>Streptococcus gordonii</i> Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis in a Pacemaker Carrier: First Case From Lebanon. [PDF]
ABSTRACT In this article, we report the case of a 57‐year‐old hypertensive man with a prosthetic valve and a pacemaker who presented after many hours of onset of left‐sided hemiplegia, left facial drop and dysarthria. Computed tomography of the brain revealed an ischemic stroke, and after an extensive workup the diagnosis of an embolic stroke induced ...
Hamadeh W, Harb YA, Abdelhadi A.
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High BMI and low cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence are associated with increased risk of severe bacterial infections in adulthood. [PDF]
Abstract Background Obesity and poor physical fitness in youth are established risk factors for future cardiovascular disease and cancer. However, their potential impact on the risk of severe bacterial infections later in life remains unclear. Methods This register‐based cohort study followed almost 1 million Swedish conscripts (mean age 18.3 years ...
Sourander B +8 more
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Hemolytic Anemia in a Patient with Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis by Cardiobacterium hominis
Hemolytic anemia is a rarely occurring manifestation of native valve infective endocarditis. We herein report an afebrile patient with hemolytic anemia caused by Cardiobacterium hominis endocarditis.
Motohiro Shingu +8 more
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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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<i>Corynebacterium bovis</i> Surgical Site Infection and Abscess Formation: A Case Report. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Corynebacterium bovis is primarily known for causing mastitis in cows. C. bovis infection in humans is quite rare with only 11 cases reported in the United States and 26 globally. A 69‐year‐old female presented with a left lower eyelid abscess following removal of a retained suture after bilateral upper and lower blepharoplasty.
VanGorder G, Peterson E.
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Roth spots: A window to underlying systemic conditions
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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Pneumococcal endocarditis of subacute evolution
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 +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]
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 +5 more
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Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) due to Streptococcus gordonii
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 +7 more
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