An unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a persistent health issue, particularly among intravenous drug users. We discussed a case of infective endocarditis in a patient who uses IV drugs, which had some unusual features such as unusual presentation, polymicrobial infection, left-sided valve involvement, coro...

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Autores principales: Daoud, Nour, Malikayil, Kiran, Regalla, Dinesh, Alam, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8220331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34189046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01201
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description Infective endocarditis (IE) is a persistent health issue, particularly among intravenous drug users. We discussed a case of infective endocarditis in a patient who uses IV drugs, which had some unusual features such as unusual presentation, polymicrobial infection, left-sided valve involvement, coronary embolism, and an uncommon pathogen for IE.
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spelling pubmed-82203312021-06-28 An unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism Daoud, Nour Malikayil, Kiran Regalla, Dinesh Alam, Mohammad IDCases Case Report Infective endocarditis (IE) is a persistent health issue, particularly among intravenous drug users. We discussed a case of infective endocarditis in a patient who uses IV drugs, which had some unusual features such as unusual presentation, polymicrobial infection, left-sided valve involvement, coronary embolism, and an uncommon pathogen for IE. Elsevier 2021-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8220331/ /pubmed/34189046 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01201 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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An unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism
title An unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism
title_full An unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism
title_fullStr An unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism
title_full_unstemmed An unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism
title_short An unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism
title_sort unusual case of infective endocarditis with acute limb ischemia and cardiac embolism
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8220331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34189046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01201
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