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Endocarditis caused by Neisseria bacilliformis: a case report and review of literature

IDCases, 2023
A 58-years-old male with history of previous aortic prosthetic endocarditis caused by Enterococcus faecalis was admitted due to dyspnoea and fever. The two sets of blood cultures were positive for Neisseria bacilliformis.
M. Gavalda, H. Vilchez, ML. Martin, E. Ruiz, MA. Ribas, M. Riera   +5 more
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Twenty-Year Experience in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The aim of this study was to compare the etiology, clinical course, selected diagnostic methods and efficacy of the treatment used in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) in the nineteen eighties and nineties.The study group comprised 300 patients ...
Elżbieta Abramczuk, Janina Stępińska, Tomasz Hryniewiecki   +2 more
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Corynebacterium CDC group G native and prosthetic valve endocarditis

Infectious Disease Reports, 2015
We report the first case of native and recurrent prosthetic valve endocarditis with Corynebacterium CDC group G, a rarely reported cause of infective endocarditis (IE). Previously, there have been only two cases reported for prosthetic valve IE caused by
Adil Sattar, Siegfried Yu, Janak Koirala
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Prosthetic valve endocarditis. [PDF]

Circulation, 1984
Fifty-three (3.6%; actuarially 4.1% at 48 months) of 1465 consecutive in-hospital survivors of valve replacement from 1975 to July 1979 (aortic, mitral, or aortic and mitral, only one untraced) developed prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). Incremental risk factors for developing PVE were native valve endocarditis (p less than .0001), black race (p ...
T S, Ivert, W E, Dismukes, C G, Cobbs, E H, Blackstone, J W, Kirklin, L A, Bergdahl   +5 more
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Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Staphylococcus capitis: report of 4 cases

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2011
Although Staphylococcus capitis is considered to be a rare causative organism for prosthetic valve endocarditis, we report 4 such cases that were encountered at our hospital over the past 2 years. Case 1 was a 79-year-old woman who underwent aortic valve
Wada Yuko, Terasaki Takamitsu, Ohtsu Yoshinori, Takano Tamaki, Amano Jun   +4 more
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Pseudomonas stutzeri prosthetic valve endocarditis: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2019
We report a case of Pseudomonas stutzeri endocarditis in Lebanon. The patient had a recent history of prosthetic aortic valve replacement and presented to the emergency department with fever and chills.
Zeina Halabi, Michele Mocadie, Saeed El Zein, Souha S. Kanj   +3 more
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Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2017
Two cases of Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis were cured when treated for 2 weeks with gentamicin and 3 months with doxycycline. Clinical cure correlated with decreased Bartonella antibody titers. This report suggests a strategy to monitor, treat,
Padmasayee Papineni, Aisling Carroll, Johannes Radvan, Carolyn Hemsley, John Chambers, Nicholas Cortes, Timothy Harrison, John L. Klein   +7 more
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In vivo virulence of Staphylococcus aureus in native versus prosthetic left-sided valve endocarditisCentral MessagePerspective

JTCVS Open
Objectives: Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis is commonly associated with invasive pathology and is worse in prosthetic valve endocarditis. In this study, we aim to examine S. aureus virulence and pathological features of native and prosthetic
Haytham Elgharably, MD, Jan Claesen, PhD, Naseer Sangwan, PhD, Muhammad Etiwy, MD, Penny Houghtaling, MS, Gary W. Procop, MD, MS, Nabin K. Shrestha, MD, Brian Griffin, MD, Jose L. Navia, MD, Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD, Daniel J. Wozniak, PhD, Gosta B. Pettersson, MD, PhD   +11 more
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Prosthetic Valve Candida Endocarditis: A Case Report with 18F-FDG-PET/CT as Part of the Diagnostic Workup

Case Reports in Cardiology, 2020
Diagnosis of Candida spp. infective endocarditis (IE) is challenging, and diagnostic delays are common. We describe two patients with Candida spp.
Soile Pauliina Salomäki, Antti Saraste, Päivi Jalava-Karvinen, Laura Pirilä, Ulla Hohenthal   +4 more
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Native Triple Valve Endocarditis as Complication of Post-Abortal Sepsis [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a highly morbid condition in pregnancy which poses both maternal and fetal risk. In majority of cases, endocarditis occurs only on single valve and usually occurs on valve with structural disease or prosthetic valve. Multi-
Mohan Venkata Sumedha Maturu, Tom Devasia, Mugula Sudhakar Rao, Hashir Kareem   +3 more
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