Gerbode defect with staphylococcus lugdunensis native tricuspid valve infective endocarditis

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 316-320

  Carpenter, Robert J ^a   Price, Gregory D ^b   Boswell, Gilbert E ^a   Nayak, Keshav R ^a   Ramirez, Alfredo R ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; DAPTOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOPLEGIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEVER; GERBODE DEFECT; HEART DISEASE; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFARCTION; MALE; NATIVE TRICUSPID VALVE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; NONHUMAN; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; SPLENOMEGALY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; STERNOTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; VALVULOPLASTY;

ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FISTULA; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861571508     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2011.01379.x     Document Type: Article

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