Intracranial hemorrhage in infective endocarditis: A case report

Intracranial hemorrhage in infective endocarditis: A case report

Cerebral hemorrhage occurs rarely in infective endocarditis. Here, we present an interesting case of infective endocarditis complicated by sever cerebral hemorrhage. Later, his blood culture grew S bovis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first ever reported case of S Bovis infective endocar...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of thoracic disease 2011, Vol.3 (2), p.134-137
Hauptverfasser: Aziz, Fahad, Perwaiz, Saira, Penupolu, Sudheer, Doddi, Sujatha, Gongireddy, Srinivas
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Cerebral hemorrhage occurs rarely in infective endocarditis. Here, we present an interesting case of infective endocarditis complicated by sever cerebral hemorrhage. Later, his blood culture grew S bovis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first ever reported case of S Bovis infective endocarditis complicated by extensive intracranial hemorrhage.
ISSN:2077-6624
DOI:10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2010.11.13