Bartonella Endocarditis: A Missed Diagnosis in Medical Practice

Here, we present the case of a 52-year-old patient who presented with fever, chills, and weight loss. Further workup revealed Bartonella endocarditis of the aortic valve. After six weeks of antibiotics, a follow-up transthoracic echocardiogram showed a decrease in the size of vegetation. Serologic t...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Yixin, Verdecia, Jorge, Mgbemena, Okechukwu, Ravi, Malleswari, Sands, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Cardiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8647862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34900484
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19309
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author Zhang, Yixin
Verdecia, Jorge
Mgbemena, Okechukwu
Ravi, Malleswari
Sands, Michael
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description Here, we present the case of a 52-year-old patient who presented with fever, chills, and weight loss. Further workup revealed Bartonella endocarditis of the aortic valve. After six weeks of antibiotics, a follow-up transthoracic echocardiogram showed a decrease in the size of vegetation. Serologic testing based on epidemiologic history should be obtained for the workup of blood culture-negative endocarditis.
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spelling pubmed-86478622021-12-10 Bartonella Endocarditis: A Missed Diagnosis in Medical Practice Zhang, Yixin Verdecia, Jorge Mgbemena, Okechukwu Ravi, Malleswari Sands, Michael Cureus Cardiology Here, we present the case of a 52-year-old patient who presented with fever, chills, and weight loss. Further workup revealed Bartonella endocarditis of the aortic valve. After six weeks of antibiotics, a follow-up transthoracic echocardiogram showed a decrease in the size of vegetation. Serologic testing based on epidemiologic history should be obtained for the workup of blood culture-negative endocarditis. Cureus 2021-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8647862/ /pubmed/34900484 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19309 Text en Copyright © 2021, Zhang et al. https://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.
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Zhang, Yixin
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Bartonella Endocarditis: A Missed Diagnosis in Medical Practice
title Bartonella Endocarditis: A Missed Diagnosis in Medical Practice
title_full Bartonella Endocarditis: A Missed Diagnosis in Medical Practice
title_fullStr Bartonella Endocarditis: A Missed Diagnosis in Medical Practice
title_full_unstemmed Bartonella Endocarditis: A Missed Diagnosis in Medical Practice
title_short Bartonella Endocarditis: A Missed Diagnosis in Medical Practice
title_sort bartonella endocarditis: a missed diagnosis in medical practice
topic Cardiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8647862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34900484
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19309
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