Culture of the Aspirated Coronary Thromboembulus Specimen: A Peculiar Diagnostic Method for Infective Endocarditis

A 69-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for persistent fever, myalgias, articular pain, headache, and hypoaesthesia of the scalp. The clinical scenario was typical for giant-cell arteritis. During hospital stay, patient developed fugax amaurosis, stroke, and acute coronary syndrome. The defin...

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Autores principales: Slavich, Massimo, Fisicaro, Andrea, Agricola, Eustachio, Coppi, Giovanni, Ballarotto, Carlo, Margonato, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3600228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23533433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/607393
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author Slavich, Massimo
Fisicaro, Andrea
Agricola, Eustachio
Coppi, Giovanni
Ballarotto, Carlo
Margonato, Alberto
author_facet Slavich, Massimo
Fisicaro, Andrea
Agricola, Eustachio
Coppi, Giovanni
Ballarotto, Carlo
Margonato, Alberto
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description A 69-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for persistent fever, myalgias, articular pain, headache, and hypoaesthesia of the scalp. The clinical scenario was typical for giant-cell arteritis. During hospital stay, patient developed fugax amaurosis, stroke, and acute coronary syndrome. The definitive diagnosis of infective endocarditis, supported by transesophageal echocardiography, was confirmed only by culturing the material obtained during angiography and coronary thromboaspiration.
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spelling pubmed-36002282013-03-26 Culture of the Aspirated Coronary Thromboembulus Specimen: A Peculiar Diagnostic Method for Infective Endocarditis Slavich, Massimo Fisicaro, Andrea Agricola, Eustachio Coppi, Giovanni Ballarotto, Carlo Margonato, Alberto Case Rep Med Case Report A 69-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for persistent fever, myalgias, articular pain, headache, and hypoaesthesia of the scalp. The clinical scenario was typical for giant-cell arteritis. During hospital stay, patient developed fugax amaurosis, stroke, and acute coronary syndrome. The definitive diagnosis of infective endocarditis, supported by transesophageal echocardiography, was confirmed only by culturing the material obtained during angiography and coronary thromboaspiration. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3600228/ /pubmed/23533433 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/607393 Text en Copyright © 2013 Massimo Slavich et al. 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.
spellingShingle Case Report
Slavich, Massimo
Fisicaro, Andrea
Agricola, Eustachio
Coppi, Giovanni
Ballarotto, Carlo
Margonato, Alberto
Culture of the Aspirated Coronary Thromboembulus Specimen: A Peculiar Diagnostic Method for Infective Endocarditis
title Culture of the Aspirated Coronary Thromboembulus Specimen: A Peculiar Diagnostic Method for Infective Endocarditis
title_full Culture of the Aspirated Coronary Thromboembulus Specimen: A Peculiar Diagnostic Method for Infective Endocarditis
title_fullStr Culture of the Aspirated Coronary Thromboembulus Specimen: A Peculiar Diagnostic Method for Infective Endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed Culture of the Aspirated Coronary Thromboembulus Specimen: A Peculiar Diagnostic Method for Infective Endocarditis
title_short Culture of the Aspirated Coronary Thromboembulus Specimen: A Peculiar Diagnostic Method for Infective Endocarditis
title_sort culture of the aspirated coronary thromboembulus specimen: a peculiar diagnostic method for infective endocarditis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3600228/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23533433
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/607393
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