Aortic valve endocarditis due to abiotrophia defectiva: A rare etiology

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 158, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 152-155

  Yerebakan, Can ^a   Westphal, Bernd ^a   Skrabal, Christian ^a   Kaminski, Alexander ^a   Ugurlucan, Murat ^a   Bomke, Anne Kathrin ^a   Liebold, Andreas ^a   Steinhoff, Gustav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abiotrophia defectiva; Aortic valve; Bacterial endocarditis; Cardiac surgery; Down syndrome

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G;

ABIOTROPHIA DEFECTIVA; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOWN SYNDROME; ENDOCARDITIS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PERICARDIOTOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; BIOPROSTHESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOWN SYNDROME; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENTAMICINS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; PENICILLINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 42049102031     PISSN: 00435341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10354-008-0514-2     Document Type: Article

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