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An unusual presentation of an unusual disease: infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature

It is normal to have patients to present with agitation to the emergency department. The history could be suggestive of the diagnosis in most. When an apparently healthy young man comes to the hospital agitated, without any history of fever or trauma, it is not an easy one to diagnose. This is a cas...

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Autores principales: Male, Kishore Reddy, Mathews, Antony, Mower, Johanna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18976481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-292
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description It is normal to have patients to present with agitation to the emergency department. The history could be suggestive of the diagnosis in most. When an apparently healthy young man comes to the hospital agitated, without any history of fever or trauma, it is not an easy one to diagnose. This is a case report of a 35 year old gentleman who presented with such a history and the final diagnosis turned out to be a usual disease. Hence any patient presenting with neurological manifestations as agitation, one should consider cardiac causes such as Infective Endocarditis if no other obvious cause is found initially.
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spelling pubmed-25855772008-11-21 An unusual presentation of an unusual disease: infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature Male, Kishore Reddy Mathews, Antony Mower, Johanna Cases J Case Report It is normal to have patients to present with agitation to the emergency department. The history could be suggestive of the diagnosis in most. When an apparently healthy young man comes to the hospital agitated, without any history of fever or trauma, it is not an easy one to diagnose. This is a case report of a 35 year old gentleman who presented with such a history and the final diagnosis turned out to be a usual disease. Hence any patient presenting with neurological manifestations as agitation, one should consider cardiac causes such as Infective Endocarditis if no other obvious cause is found initially. BioMed Central 2008-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2585577/ /pubmed/18976481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-292 Text en Copyright © 2008 Male et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short An unusual presentation of an unusual disease: infective endocarditis: a case report and review of the literature
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