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Why humans should not eat broom straws: Pericarditis and endocarditis
A broom straw was ingested and penetrated the esophageal wall, the pericardial space and its tip became lodged in the coronary sinus. Bacterial pericarditis and then fungal endocarditis ensued but were temporally separated by an asymptomatic 6-month period. On transthoracic echocardiography, the str...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331847/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32641887 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_194_19 |
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description | A broom straw was ingested and penetrated the esophageal wall, the pericardial space and its tip became lodged in the coronary sinus. Bacterial pericarditis and then fungal endocarditis ensued but were temporally separated by an asymptomatic 6-month period. On transthoracic echocardiography, the straw was mistakenly identified to be a “prominent Thebesian valve.” This child survived both life-threatening infections. The occurrence of infections caused by unusual organisms in the setting of immunocompetence highlights the need for a high index of suspicion for the presence of a causative foreign body. |
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spelling | pubmed-73318472020-07-07 Why humans should not eat broom straws: Pericarditis and endocarditis Novotny, William Edward Keel, Cynthia P Ann Pediatr Cardiol Case Report A broom straw was ingested and penetrated the esophageal wall, the pericardial space and its tip became lodged in the coronary sinus. Bacterial pericarditis and then fungal endocarditis ensued but were temporally separated by an asymptomatic 6-month period. On transthoracic echocardiography, the straw was mistakenly identified to be a “prominent Thebesian valve.” This child survived both life-threatening infections. The occurrence of infections caused by unusual organisms in the setting of immunocompetence highlights the need for a high index of suspicion for the presence of a causative foreign body. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7331847/ /pubmed/32641887 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_194_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Novotny, William Edward Keel, Cynthia P Why humans should not eat broom straws: Pericarditis and endocarditis |
title | Why humans should not eat broom straws: Pericarditis and endocarditis |
title_full | Why humans should not eat broom straws: Pericarditis and endocarditis |
title_fullStr | Why humans should not eat broom straws: Pericarditis and endocarditis |
title_full_unstemmed | Why humans should not eat broom straws: Pericarditis and endocarditis |
title_short | Why humans should not eat broom straws: Pericarditis and endocarditis |
title_sort | why humans should not eat broom straws: pericarditis and endocarditis |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331847/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32641887 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/apc.APC_194_19 |
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