Endocarditis of the native aortic valve caused by Lactobacillus jensenii

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Patnaik, Soumya ^a   Davila, Carlos Daniel ^a   Chennupati, Anupama ^a   Rubin, Alexander ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEMOGLOBIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TROPONIN I; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CRACKLE; DISORIENTATION; DROWSINESS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HEART ABSCESS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LACTOBACILLUS JENSENII; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RNA SEQUENCE; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOOTH DISEASE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; COMPLICATION; DEBRIDEMENT; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; DEBRIDEMENT; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84929000553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2014-206288     Document Type: Article

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