A Unique Case of Elizabethkingia Associated Cardiac Device Infection

Elizabethkingia is a ubiquitous gram-negative aerobic bacillus that has gained attention in recent years as an emerging nosocomial infection in critically ill patients. We describe a case of bacteremia that developed in a patient who underwent complicated surgery with an extended intensive care unit...

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Autores principales: Arora, Yingyot, D’Angelo-Piaggio, Lorenzo, Llaneras, Noah, Carrillo, Roger
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/PMC8716162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34987913
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20028
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author Arora, Yingyot
D’Angelo-Piaggio, Lorenzo
Llaneras, Noah
Carrillo, Roger
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description Elizabethkingia is a ubiquitous gram-negative aerobic bacillus that has gained attention in recent years as an emerging nosocomial infection in critically ill patients. We describe a case of bacteremia that developed in a patient who underwent complicated surgery with an extended intensive care unit (ICU) stay. The patient underwent pacemaker extraction with laser lead extraction and treatment with intravenous antibiotics. This case illustrates the importance of lead management strategies in septic patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED).
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spelling pubmed-87161622022-01-04 A Unique Case of Elizabethkingia Associated Cardiac Device Infection Arora, Yingyot D’Angelo-Piaggio, Lorenzo Llaneras, Noah Carrillo, Roger Cureus Cardiology Elizabethkingia is a ubiquitous gram-negative aerobic bacillus that has gained attention in recent years as an emerging nosocomial infection in critically ill patients. We describe a case of bacteremia that developed in a patient who underwent complicated surgery with an extended intensive care unit (ICU) stay. The patient underwent pacemaker extraction with laser lead extraction and treatment with intravenous antibiotics. This case illustrates the importance of lead management strategies in septic patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED). Cureus 2021-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8716162/ /pubmed/34987913 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20028 Text en Copyright © 2021, Arora 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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title_short A Unique Case of Elizabethkingia Associated Cardiac Device Infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8716162/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34987913
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20028
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