Transcatheter aortic-valve endocarditis confirmed by transesophageal echocardiography

Circulation

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Orban, Mathias ^a,b   Sinnecker, Daniel ^a   Mair, Helmut ^b   Nabauer, Michael ^b   Kupatt, Christian ^b   Schmitz, Christoph ^b   Massberg, Steffen ^a,b   Laugwitz, Karl Ludwig ^a   Barthel, Petra ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; EMBOLECTOMY; EUROSCORE; FOREARM; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NOTE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPINAL PAIN; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS; THROMBOSIS; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS LUGDUNENSIS;

EID: 84872306887     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.109033     Document Type: Note

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