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
Materias:
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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