Publications by authors named "Meenal Malviya"
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- * Out of 312 initial patients, 68 cases were identified, primarily involving bacteremia and urinary tract infections, with a mean patient age of 70 years and a high rate of prior urinary catheter use (65.2%).
- * Most infections were treated successfully with third-generation cephalosporins, though only a small fraction (7.2%) exhibited multidrug resistance; overall mortality during hospital admission was 27.1%, but unrelated to the infections caused by this bacterium.
In immunocompromised patients, the rapid development of lymphadenopathy could pose a few diagnostic challenges. This is important, especially with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) which can manifest with the development of infections or may even progress with transformation into a more aggressive form of the disease. We report a case of a patient with CLL/SLL who presented with fever and worsening dyspnea as well as inguinal lymphadenopathy upon evaluation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe AngioVac is a vacuum-based device introduced in 2012 to percutaneously remove undesirable material from the intravascular system. In scattered reports, the AngioVac has been used for removal of device-led vegetations and right-sided thrombi. In this article, we describe three cases of right-sided endocarditis treated with AngioVac: a mobile mass extending from the vena cava into the right atrium, large native tricuspid vegetations, and bioprosthetic tricuspid vegetations.
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