A Case Report: Mitral Valve Infective Endocarditis due to <i>Streptococcus mitis</i> With Cardioembolic Stroke in the Setting of a Neuroendocrine Tumor. [PDF]
Case Rep CardiolInfective endocarditis is a life‐threatening infection of the endocardial surface, most commonly resulting from bacteremia originating from the oral cavity or intravascular sources. However, in some cases, the source of bacteremia remains unidentified, and the role of gastrointestinal pathology is not well defined.
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Clinical case of treatment of subacute endocarditis in a patient after occluder closing of the patent foramen ovale [PDF]
, 2021 The role of transcatheter closure of the patent foramen ovale in the occurrence of various complications remains a controversial issue. Atrial arrhythmias and bleeding are common complications, while infectious complications are extremely rare.
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Clinical Case Reports, 2018 Key Clinical Message Although the role of ANCA in infective endocarditis is unclear, Bartonella henselae has been implicated as the culprit in cases of PR3‐ANCA positive subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) with glomerulonephritis.
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Broad-Host-Range Shuttle Vectors for Screening of Regulated Promoter Activity in Viridans Group Streptococci: Isolation of a pH-Regulated Promoter [PDF]
, 2000 Viridans group streptococci are major constituents of the normal human oral flora and are also identified as the predominant pathogenic bacteria in native valve infective endocarditis.
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Rare case of Proteus mirabilis native mitral valve endocarditis in an immunocompromised patient
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021 Background Bacterial infective endocarditis caused by Proteus mirabilis is rare and there are few cases in the literature. The natural history and treatment of this disease is not as clear but presumed to be associated with complicated urinary tract ...
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Pascal's Wager, infective endocarditis and the "no-lose" philosophy in medicine [PDF]
, 2010 Doctors and dentists have traditionally used antibiotic prophylaxis in certain patient groups in order to prevent infective endocarditis (IE). New guidelines, however, suggest that the risk to patients from using antibiotics is higher than the risk from ...
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2012 Background Despite advances in antimicrobial and surgical therapy, septic arthritis remains a rheumatologic emergency that can lead to rapid joint destruction and irreversible loss of function.
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BMC Nephrology, 2020 Background Diagnosis and treatment of either ANCA disease or silent infection-related glomerulonephritis is complicated and is a huge treatment challenge when overlapping clinical manifestations occur.
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Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis
Autopsy and Case Reports, 2016 Death certificate inaccuracy is of major concern both in the public health domain and in individual health care, since it may yield untruthful data on the incidence, prevalence, and lethality of medical entities, and may hamper prophylactic measures ...
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Subacute bacterial endocarditis presenting as left upper quadrant abdominal pain [PDF]
, 2013 Infective endocarditis is a microbial infection of the endocardial surface of the heart. Its symptoms and signs are varied, and include fever, heart murmur, peripheral embolism, and heart failure. The diagnosis of subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) is
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