Infective endocarditis with a huge mitral vegetation related to atopic dermatitis and high serum level of infection-related antiphospholipid antibody: A case report

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 135-140

  Harada, Masahide ^a,b   Nishi, Yutaro ^a   Tamura, Shinjiro ^a   Iba, Yutaka ^a   Abe, Kohei ^a   Yanbe, Yuzuru ^a   Akimoto, Takehide ^a   Takao, Nobuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Sunao ^a   Hayashida, Noriaki ^a   Koyanagi, Hitoshi ^a  

^a ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA SAISEIKAI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibodies (antiphospholipid); Echocardiography, transesophageal, transthoracic; Endocarditis (infective); Infectious disease (methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus)

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; PENICILLIN G; PHOSPHOLIPID ANTIBODY; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPLEEN INFARCTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MITRAL VALVE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0141940737     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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