Triple valve endocarditis by mycobacterium tuberculosis. A case report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shaikh, Quratulain ^a   Mahmood, Faisal ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Immunocompetent; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS THROMBECTOMY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TOE GANGRENE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICOAGULANTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PAKISTAN; STROKE; TRICUSPID VALVE; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84866698382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-231     Document Type: Article

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