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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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Autores principales: Riaz, Sana, Sampat, Parth J, Khan, Alisha, Bakrukov, Dmitriy, Carhart, Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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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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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.
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title_full Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis
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title_short Systemic Embolization as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Cause of Infective Endocarditis
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topic Cardiac/Thoracic/Vascular Surgery
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