A case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin

A young girl was admitted for fever, headache, paresthesia of the hands, involuntary blinking of the left eye and aphasia. Imaging revealed mycotic cerebral aneurysms and finally infective endocarditis was diagnosed and successfully treated with daptomycin. She had a history of mitral prolapse and s...

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Autores principales: Doria, Roberta, Tagliaferri, Enrico, Andreotti, Giovanni, Taddei, Riccardo, Nardini, Rubinia, Tascini, Carlo, Menichetti, Francesco
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Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24765392
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2011.e92
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author Doria, Roberta
Tagliaferri, Enrico
Andreotti, Giovanni
Taddei, Riccardo
Nardini, Rubinia
Tascini, Carlo
Menichetti, Francesco
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description A young girl was admitted for fever, headache, paresthesia of the hands, involuntary blinking of the left eye and aphasia. Imaging revealed mycotic cerebral aneurysms and finally infective endocarditis was diagnosed and successfully treated with daptomycin. She had a history of mitral prolapse and she had undergone dental procedures some months before without any antibiotic prophylaxis, according to the 2007 guidelines of the American Heart Association.
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spelling pubmed-39814262014-04-24 A case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin Doria, Roberta Tagliaferri, Enrico Andreotti, Giovanni Taddei, Riccardo Nardini, Rubinia Tascini, Carlo Menichetti, Francesco Clin Pract Case Report A young girl was admitted for fever, headache, paresthesia of the hands, involuntary blinking of the left eye and aphasia. Imaging revealed mycotic cerebral aneurysms and finally infective endocarditis was diagnosed and successfully treated with daptomycin. She had a history of mitral prolapse and she had undergone dental procedures some months before without any antibiotic prophylaxis, according to the 2007 guidelines of the American Heart Association. PAGEPress Publications 2011-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3981426/ /pubmed/24765392 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2011.e92 Text en ©Copyright R. Doria et al., 2011 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Licensee PAGEPress, Italy
spellingShingle Case Report
Doria, Roberta
Tagliaferri, Enrico
Andreotti, Giovanni
Taddei, Riccardo
Nardini, Rubinia
Tascini, Carlo
Menichetti, Francesco
A case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin
title A case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin
title_full A case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin
title_fullStr A case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin
title_full_unstemmed A case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin
title_short A case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin
title_sort case of endocarditis with cerebral embolism successfully treated with daptomycin
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981426/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24765392
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/cp.2011.e92
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