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Subacute bacterial endocarditis and subsequent shunt nephritis from ventriculoatrial shunting 14 years after shunt implantation. [PDF]

BMJ Case Rep, 2014
Burström G, Andresen M, Bartek J, Fytagoridis A.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Prophylactic Antibiotics for Prevention of Infective Endocarditis or Bacteremia in Pediatric Patients With Congenital Heart Disease Undergoing Dental Procedures: Systematic Review. [PDF]

Spec Care Dentist
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, Baskette J, Fagan TR, Sardana D.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Embolic Stroke as a Complication of <i>Streptococcus gordonii</i> Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis in a Pacemaker Carrier: First Case From Lebanon. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
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.
europepmc   +2 more sources

High BMI and low cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence are associated with increased risk of severe bacterial infections in adulthood. [PDF]

J Intern Med
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, Mehlig K, Olsen F, Lindgren M, Snygg-Martin U, Gisslén M, Rosengren A, Åberg M, Robertson J.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Endocarditis, Meningitis and Pneumocystis Pneumonia [PDF]

, 2016
Infective endocarditis (IE) is associated with high morbidity and mortality despite advances in antibiotic and surgical treatment. Systemic embolism occurs in up to 49% of IE patients and may involve the major arteries, limb arteries, viscera and the ...
Andrade, Sérgio, Conceição, Filipe, Paulo, Cristiana, Silva, Filipa, Vilaça, João   +4 more
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