Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis: A Case of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Masquerading as Infective Endocarditis

This case illustrates a rare, underdiagnosed disease, with a high mortality rate that is frequently misdiagnosed as acute bacterial endocarditis. Clinicians should include non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) as a differential diagnosis in patients with culture-negative endocarditis, so that...

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Autores principales: Randhawa, Gurchetan, Aslam, Awais, Suarez, Maria J, Lin, Yu Shia, Kuhn-Basti, Margaret
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789048
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9103
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author Randhawa, Gurchetan
Aslam, Awais
Suarez, Maria J
Lin, Yu Shia
Kuhn-Basti, Margaret
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description This case illustrates a rare, underdiagnosed disease, with a high mortality rate that is frequently misdiagnosed as acute bacterial endocarditis. Clinicians should include non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) as a differential diagnosis in patients with culture-negative endocarditis, so that its underlying etiology can be further investigated.
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spelling pubmed-74171172020-08-11 Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis: A Case of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Masquerading as Infective Endocarditis Randhawa, Gurchetan Aslam, Awais Suarez, Maria J Lin, Yu Shia Kuhn-Basti, Margaret Cureus Cardiology This case illustrates a rare, underdiagnosed disease, with a high mortality rate that is frequently misdiagnosed as acute bacterial endocarditis. Clinicians should include non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE) as a differential diagnosis in patients with culture-negative endocarditis, so that its underlying etiology can be further investigated. Cureus 2020-07-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7417117/ /pubmed/32789048 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9103 Text en Copyright © 2020, Randhawa 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 Cardiology
Randhawa, Gurchetan
Aslam, Awais
Suarez, Maria J
Lin, Yu Shia
Kuhn-Basti, Margaret
Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis: A Case of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Masquerading as Infective Endocarditis
title Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis: A Case of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Masquerading as Infective Endocarditis
title_full Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis: A Case of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Masquerading as Infective Endocarditis
title_fullStr Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis: A Case of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Masquerading as Infective Endocarditis
title_full_unstemmed Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis: A Case of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Masquerading as Infective Endocarditis
title_short Non-Bacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis: A Case of Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Masquerading as Infective Endocarditis
title_sort non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis: a case of metastatic pancreatic cancer masquerading as infective endocarditis
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32789048
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9103
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