Infective tricuspid valve endocarditis with pulmonary emboli caused by campylobacter fetus after tooth extraction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1055-1059

  Miki, Keisuke ^a   Maekura, Ryoji ^a   Hiraga, Toru ^a   Hirotani, Atsushi ^a   Hashimoto, Hisako ^a   Kitada, Seigo ^a   Miki, Mari ^a   Yoshimura, Kenji ^a   Naka, Nobuyuki ^a   Motone, Masaharu ^a   Fujikawa, Takeya ^a   Takashima, Shodayu ^a   Kitazume, Rika ^b   Kanzaki, Hideaki ^a   Nakatani, Satoshi ^b   Watanuki, Hirotaka ^b   Tagusari, Osamu ^b   Kobayashi, Junjiro ^b   Ito, Masami ^a  

^a TONEYAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dental treatment; Valvuplasty

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEAT; RADIATION ATTENUATION; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE; VALVULOPLASTY;

CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TOOTH EXTRACTION; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 28344437713     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.44.1055     Document Type: Article

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