A case series of medically managed infective endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 489-493

  Aung, Thi ^a   Poon, Karl ^a,b   Horvath, Robert ^a   Coulter, Christopher ^a   Walters, Darren L ^a,b  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Infective endocarditis; TAVR; Transcatheter aortic valve replacements

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CELLULITIS; CHILL; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST INDUCED NEPHROPATHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FALLING; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STEROID THERAPY; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 84877903846     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2012.754105     Document Type: Article

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