Infective endocarditis secondary to is very rare, noted in patients with severe immunosuppresion. The disease is associated with high mortality. Therefore early diagnosis and aggressive treatment is recommended.
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BMJ Case Rep
March 2024
Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Campus, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.
A woman in her 40s presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 3-week history of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. Blood cultures were positive for and spp. One month before her ED visit, she underwent targeted uterine artery embolisation with particles by an interventional radiologist.
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December 2023
Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, USA.
is a bacterial pathogen that tends to cause opportunistic infections, mainly in immune-compromised patients. In this case, we present a 69-year-old female who presented to the emergency department (ED) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Chicago on February 11th, 2022, after a mechanical fall. She had a medical history of metastatic lung cancer treated with chemotherapy, hypertension, pulmonary embolism, polysubstance abuse, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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November 2023
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Saint Michael's Medical Center, Newark, USA.
Serratia marcescens endocarditis is a rare occurrence. We describe a case of Serratia endocarditis in a patient with a prosthetic valve. The clinical course was complicated by widespread embolic phenomena causing stroke, gangrene of extremities, and septic emboli to the lungs, spleen, and eyes.
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September 2023
Maladies infectieuses, Centre Hospitalier Bretagne-Atlantique, Vannes, France.
Background: Infective endocarditis (IE) caused by non-HACEK gram-negative bacilli (GNB) is poorly characterised and may be emerging as a consequence of medical progress.
Methods: We performed an observational retrospective case-control study. Cases were non-HACEK GNB IE, definite or possible (modified Duke criteria), diagnosed in adults between 2007 and 2020 in six French referral hospitals.
J Med Cases
July 2022
Graduate Medical Education, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.
() is a gram negative bacterium rarely associated with cases of infective endocarditis (IE). Involvement of three cardiac valves, as evidenced by echocardiography, is uncommon as well. IE and tri-valvular endocarditis have been rarely described in literature.
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