Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever

We present an infant with hypoplastic left heart with persistent fever despite two courses of antibiotics and repeatedly negative blood cultures. He eventually underwent surgical extraction of two stents. The stent cultures became positive; he was treated with 4 weeks of antibiotics and the fever re...

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Autores principales: Piggott, Kurt D., Laham, Federico, Jordan Villegas, Alejandro, Fakioglu, Harun, Blanco, Carlos, Suguna Narasimhulu, Sukumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578746/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26435853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/496108
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author Piggott, Kurt D.
Laham, Federico
Jordan Villegas, Alejandro
Fakioglu, Harun
Blanco, Carlos
Suguna Narasimhulu, Sukumar
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description We present an infant with hypoplastic left heart with persistent fever despite two courses of antibiotics and repeatedly negative blood cultures. He eventually underwent surgical extraction of two stents. The stent cultures became positive; he was treated with 4 weeks of antibiotics and the fever resolved.
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spelling pubmed-45787462015-10-04 Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever Piggott, Kurt D. Laham, Federico Jordan Villegas, Alejandro Fakioglu, Harun Blanco, Carlos Suguna Narasimhulu, Sukumar Case Rep Cardiol Case Report We present an infant with hypoplastic left heart with persistent fever despite two courses of antibiotics and repeatedly negative blood cultures. He eventually underwent surgical extraction of two stents. The stent cultures became positive; he was treated with 4 weeks of antibiotics and the fever resolved. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4578746/ /pubmed/26435853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/496108 Text en Copyright © 2015 Kurt D. Piggott 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.
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Blanco, Carlos
Suguna Narasimhulu, Sukumar
Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever
title Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever
title_full Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever
title_fullStr Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever
title_full_unstemmed Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever
title_short Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever
title_sort culture negative stent infection in an infant with hypoplastic left heart and persistent fever
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578746/
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