Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Complication of Spinal Epidural Abscess

Epidural injections for chronic low back pain are controversial, and their effectiveness is debated. Although epidural injections are considered a minor procedure with low morbidity, catastrophic complications may occur. We describe a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis secondary to an epidural ab...

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Autores principales: Bedoya, Armando, Gentilesco, Bethany
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21209812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/105426
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description Epidural injections for chronic low back pain are controversial, and their effectiveness is debated. Although epidural injections are considered a minor procedure with low morbidity, catastrophic complications may occur. We describe a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis secondary to an epidural abscess after epidural injection to alert clinicians to this unusual association.
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spelling pubmed-30148192011-01-05 Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Complication of Spinal Epidural Abscess Bedoya, Armando Gentilesco, Bethany Case Rep Med Case Report Epidural injections for chronic low back pain are controversial, and their effectiveness is debated. Although epidural injections are considered a minor procedure with low morbidity, catastrophic complications may occur. We describe a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis secondary to an epidural abscess after epidural injection to alert clinicians to this unusual association. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3014819/ /pubmed/21209812 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/105426 Text en Copyright © 2010 A. Bedoya and B. Gentilesco. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Complication of Spinal Epidural Abscess
title Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Complication of Spinal Epidural Abscess
title_full Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Complication of Spinal Epidural Abscess
title_fullStr Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Complication of Spinal Epidural Abscess
title_full_unstemmed Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Complication of Spinal Epidural Abscess
title_short Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Complication of Spinal Epidural Abscess
title_sort prosthetic valve endocarditis: a complication of spinal epidural abscess
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21209812
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/105426
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