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Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis
Infective endocarditis is a rare disease and is associated with a high mortality rate. The following case describes a 56-year-old gentleman who presented to our hospital with a pulseless left leg concerning for acute limb ischemia, which was managed with emergent revascularization. His subsequent wo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528787 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8472 |
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author | Riaz, Sana Sampat, Parth J Khan, Alisha Bakrukov, Dmitriy Carhart, Robert |
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description | Infective endocarditis is a rare disease and is associated with a high mortality rate. The following case describes a 56-year-old gentleman who presented to our hospital with a pulseless left leg concerning for acute limb ischemia, which was managed with emergent revascularization. His subsequent workup revealed IE due to a rare organism known as Streptococcus dysgalactiae. Through this case, we want to showcase this rare cause of IE and also highlight systemic embolization as its possible initial presentation. |
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spelling | pubmed-72823772020-06-10 Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis Riaz, Sana Sampat, Parth J Khan, Alisha Bakrukov, Dmitriy Carhart, Robert Cureus Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Infective endocarditis is a rare disease and is associated with a high mortality rate. The following case describes a 56-year-old gentleman who presented to our hospital with a pulseless left leg concerning for acute limb ischemia, which was managed with emergent revascularization. His subsequent workup revealed IE due to a rare organism known as Streptococcus dysgalactiae. Through this case, we want to showcase this rare cause of IE and also highlight systemic embolization as its possible initial presentation. Cureus 2020-06-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7282377/ /pubmed/32528787 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8472 Text en Copyright © 2020, Riaz et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery Riaz, Sana Sampat, Parth J Khan, Alisha Bakrukov, Dmitriy Carhart, Robert Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis |
title | Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis |
title_full | Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis |
title_fullStr | Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis |
title_full_unstemmed | Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis |
title_short | Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis |
title_sort | systemic embolization as the initial presentation of a rare cause of infective endocarditis |
topic | Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282377/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32528787 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8472 |
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