Case 5-2007: A 53-year-old man with a prosthetic aortic valve and recent onset of fatigue, dyspnea, weight loss, and sweats

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 356, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 715-725

  Raoult, Didier ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^b,c   Jassal, Davinder S ^b,c   Kradin, Richard L ^b,c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; GIANT CELL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SWEAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANEMIA; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; Q FEVER; SWEATING;

ANEMIA; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTOGRAPHY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FATIGUE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; Q FEVER; SWEATING; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 33846990437     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc069036     Document Type: Article

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