Delayed Serratia marcescens endocarditis associated with intracardiac foreign body

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 437-440

  Yang, Li ^a   Wang, Jing Feng ^a   Wu, Wei ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Endocarditis; Foreign body

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFMINOX; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; ETIMICIN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHILL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY; HEADACHE; HEART ATRIUM; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC FOREIGN BODY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PALLOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33947702207     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00029330-200703010-00019     Document Type: Article

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