Could Externalized St. Jude Medical Riata® Lead Be a Culture Medium of a Polymicrobial Endocarditis? A Clinical Case

We report the case of a man affected by polymicrobial endocarditis developed on a St. Jude Medical Riata lead with a malfunction because of the outsourcing of conductors. The patient was treated with antibiotic targeted therapy and showed different bacteria at the blood cultures and then underwent t...

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Autores principales: Palamà, Zefferino, Trotta, Roberta, Mandurino, Cosimo, Pinto, Mariangela, Luzzi, Giovanni, Favale, Stefano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5274697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28191354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8967234

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5274697/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28191354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8967234

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