Infective tricuspid valve endocarditis with septic pulmonary emboli due to puncture of an endogenous arteriovenous fistula in a chronic hemodialysis patient

Journal of Infection

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 188-191

  Brueck, Martin ^a   Rauber, Klaus ^a   Wizemann, Volker ^b   Kramer, Wilfried ^a  

^a Department of Cardiology   (Germany)

^b Georg Haas Dialysis Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOSFOMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEVER; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VEIN PUNCTURE;

EID: 0037380124     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jinf.2002.1092     Document Type: Article

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