Successful surgical management of patients with infective endocarditis associated with acute neurologic deficits

Subjects were 2 patients with neurologic deficits due to infective endocarditis. The first, a 30-year-old woman with acute ischemic stroke, was found to have vegetation from infective endocarditis as the embolic source. Two weeks after she experienced an acute ischemic stroke, we conducted elective...

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Veröffentlicht in:	General thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2002-05, Vol.50 (5), p.220-223
Hauptverfasser:	Sawamura, Yoshihiro, Fukuju, Takeo, Kikuchi, Sekinori, Kitahara, Masakazu, Ito, Takashi, Tabayashi, Koichi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aneurysm, Infected - complications Aneurysm, Ruptured - complications Carotid Arteries Elective Surgical Procedures Endocarditis, Bacterial - etiology Endocarditis, Bacterial - surgery Female Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation Humans Intracranial Hemorrhages - etiology Mitral Valve - surgery Stroke - etiology
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