Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Intravenous drug abuse contributes to considerable illness burden in developed and developing countries. Tricuspid valve endocarditis (TVE) is rare in Middle East countries, though many reports of it in intravenous drug abusers are found in other countries. We describe a case of TVE mimicking pulmon...

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Autores principales: Panduranga, Prashanth, Al-Mukhaini, Mohammed, Sulaiman, Kadhim, Al-Abri, Seif
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21577381
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.76805
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author Panduranga, Prashanth
Al-Mukhaini, Mohammed
Sulaiman, Kadhim
Al-Abri, Seif
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Al-Mukhaini, Mohammed
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Al-Abri, Seif
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description Intravenous drug abuse contributes to considerable illness burden in developed and developing countries. Tricuspid valve endocarditis (TVE) is rare in Middle East countries, though many reports of it in intravenous drug abusers are found in other countries. We describe a case of TVE mimicking pulmonary tuberculosis in a 33-year-old man with a history of intravenous heroin use.
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spelling pubmed-30898282011-05-16 Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis Panduranga, Prashanth Al-Mukhaini, Mohammed Sulaiman, Kadhim Al-Abri, Seif Heart Views Case Report Intravenous drug abuse contributes to considerable illness burden in developed and developing countries. Tricuspid valve endocarditis (TVE) is rare in Middle East countries, though many reports of it in intravenous drug abusers are found in other countries. We describe a case of TVE mimicking pulmonary tuberculosis in a 33-year-old man with a history of intravenous heroin use. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3089828/ /pubmed/21577381 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.76805 Text en © Gulf Heart Association http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Panduranga, Prashanth
Al-Mukhaini, Mohammed
Sulaiman, Kadhim
Al-Abri, Seif
Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title_full Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title_fullStr Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title_short Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis in an Intravenous Drug Abuser Masquerading as Pulmonary Tuberculosis
title_sort tricuspid valve endocarditis in an intravenous drug abuser masquerading as pulmonary tuberculosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3089828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21577381
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1995-705X.76805
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