Endocarditis: An Easy Miss.

Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med

St. Luke's University Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Published: August 2017

Subacute endocarditis often presents with an indolent course. A potentially lethal form generated by infection with may be easily overlooked early in its presentation. This report discusses the case of an 18-year-old male discovered to have severe endocarditis after presenting to the emergency department with the chief complaint of foot pain.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965177PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.3.33126DOI Listing

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