Sepsis from insidious pacemaker infection and unsuspected tricuspid valve endocarditis: The importance of transesophageal echocardiography in guiding explantation strategy

Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 505-507

  Belikov, Sergey ^a   Marijic, Jure ^a   Laks, Hillel ^a   Staudacher, Mark ^a   Boyle, Noel ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a   Odim, Jonah ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Infection; Pacemaker; Sepsis; Transesophageal echocardiography; Tricuspid valve

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; EXPLANT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STERNOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

AGED; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 23644453916     PISSN: 10530770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2005.05.009     Document Type: Article

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