Disseminated Native Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis and Vertebral Osteomyelitis Secondary to Veillonella dispar in a Patient Who Injects Drugs

We present the case of a 50-year-old man presenting with fever, back pain, persistent bacteremia with Veillonella dispar, echocardiographic evidence of a tricuspid valve vegetation increasing in size, and magnetic resonance imaging suggesting new vertebral osteomyelitis. He was successfully treated...

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Autores principales: Shah, Love, Pylypchuk, Stephen, Peermohamed, Shaqil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
Materias:
Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8519187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34667667
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17989

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8519187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34667667
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17989

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