Lactobacillus rhamnosus endocarditis: An unusual culprit in a patient with barlow’s disease

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 445-448

  Felekos, Ioannis ^a   Lazaros, George ^a   Tsiriga, Athanasia ^b   Pirounaki, Maria ^b   Stavropoulos, George ^b   Paraskevas, Joseph ^a   Toutouza, Marina ^b   Tousoulis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Barlow disease; Chemoprophylaxis; Infective endocarditis; Lactobacillus rhamnosus; Molecular diagnosis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; DISK DIFFUSION; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; GRAM STAINING; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NONHUMAN; NOSE SURGERY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; BLOOD; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; GENETICS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; AGED; CHEMOPREVENTION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; PENICILLINS;

EID: 85020185230     PISSN: 11099666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjc.2016.11.011     Document Type: Article

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