Culture-negative endocarditis with neurologic presentations and dramatic response to heparin: a case report

BACKGROUND: Blood culture-negative endocarditis (BCNE) is diagnosed in 2–7% of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) and recent antibiotic use is a known risk factor. Altered mental status may be a presenting symptom. Besides empiric antibiotics, intravenous anticoagulation using heparin may hav...

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Autores principales: Sheibani, Hossein, Salari, Mohammad, Azmoodeh, Elham, Kheirieh, Amirhessam, Chaghazardi, Sara
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7339518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32631238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-020-05206-0

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