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Endovascular Endocarditis Within the Superior Vena Cava of a Patient With a Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis

Tunneled hemodialysis catheters, such as permacaths, are frequently used for vascular access in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. The use of these catheters is associated with bloodstream infections, thromboses, and infective endocarditis. While valvular endocarditis is a more common entity,...

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Autores principales: Liang, Richard, Landry, Ian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35419229
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23027
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description Tunneled hemodialysis catheters, such as permacaths, are frequently used for vascular access in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. The use of these catheters is associated with bloodstream infections, thromboses, and infective endocarditis. While valvular endocarditis is a more common entity, non-valvular endovascular endocarditis is less commonly reported in the literature. Fibrin sheaths which form along the catheter may act as niduses for infection, which can then seed the surrounding tissues. We present a case of infective endovascular endocarditis originating from an infected fibrin sheath in the superior vena cava of an ESRD patient. 
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spelling pubmed-89944752022-04-12 Endovascular Endocarditis Within the Superior Vena Cava of a Patient With a Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis Liang, Richard Landry, Ian Cureus Internal Medicine Tunneled hemodialysis catheters, such as permacaths, are frequently used for vascular access in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. The use of these catheters is associated with bloodstream infections, thromboses, and infective endocarditis. While valvular endocarditis is a more common entity, non-valvular endovascular endocarditis is less commonly reported in the literature. Fibrin sheaths which form along the catheter may act as niduses for infection, which can then seed the surrounding tissues. We present a case of infective endovascular endocarditis originating from an infected fibrin sheath in the superior vena cava of an ESRD patient.  Cureus 2022-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8994475/ /pubmed/35419229 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23027 Text en Copyright © 2022, Liang 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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Endovascular Endocarditis Within the Superior Vena Cava of a Patient With a Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis
title Endovascular Endocarditis Within the Superior Vena Cava of a Patient With a Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis
title_full Endovascular Endocarditis Within the Superior Vena Cava of a Patient With a Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis
title_fullStr Endovascular Endocarditis Within the Superior Vena Cava of a Patient With a Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis
title_full_unstemmed Endovascular Endocarditis Within the Superior Vena Cava of a Patient With a Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis
title_short Endovascular Endocarditis Within the Superior Vena Cava of a Patient With a Tunneled Catheter for Hemodialysis
title_sort endovascular endocarditis within the superior vena cava of a patient with a tunneled catheter for hemodialysis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35419229
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23027
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