Brucellosis relapse causing prosthetic valve endocarditis and aortic root infective pseudoaneurysm

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Amirghofran, Ahmad Ali ^a   Karimi, Ashkan ^b   Emaminia, Abbas ^c   Sharifkazemi, Mohammad Bagher ^a   Salaminia, Shirvan ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFIXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE FOSFATEX; GENTAMICIN; MERCAPTOETHANOL; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTIBODY TITER; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEVER; HEART ARREST; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 80053330031     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.03.144     Document Type: Article

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