Successful management of native-valve Brucella endocarditis with medical therapy alone

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Shetty, Ranjan K ^a   Madken, Mohit ^a   Naha, Kushal ^a   Vivek, G ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CASE REPORT; CATTLE; CHILL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIASTOLIC HEART MURMUR; DISEASE DURATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 84880090051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-200086     Document Type: Article

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