Abiotrophia defectivus infectious endocarditis: think beyond the heart

Based on the Duke criteria, incorporating the echocardiographic and blood culture results, we diagnosed A defectivus endocarditis and changed the antibiotics to intravenous amoxicillin 2 g 4 hourly and gentamicin 80 mg twice daily, according to hospital protocol. Because of severe aortic regurgitati...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Lancet (British edition) 2015-03, Vol.385 (9972), p.1044-1044
Hauptverfasser:	Kalogeropoulos, Andreas S, Dr, Siva, Arun, MBBS, Anderson, Lisa, MD
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abiotrophia Aneurysm, Infected - diagnosis Aneurysm, Infected - microbiology Antibiotics Aortic Valve Insufficiency - diagnostic imaging Aortic Valve Insufficiency - microbiology Arterial Occlusive Diseases - diagnosis Arterial Occlusive Diseases - microbiology Cardiology Cardiovascular disease Echocardiography, Transesophageal Endocarditis, Bacterial - diagnosis Female Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections - diagnosis Heart Histopathology Humans Internal Medicine Mitral Valve Insufficiency - diagnostic imaging Mitral Valve Insufficiency - microbiology Mortality Tomography, X-Ray Computed Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex Veins & arteries Young Adult
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