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Gemella endocarditis

We herein present the case presenting to our facility complaining of a fever of two months duration, who underwent dental procedure. Patient was diagnosed with infective endocarditis secondary to an uncommon bacteria: Gemella haemolysans. Patient was found to have concomitant severe mitral valve reg...

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Autores principales: Rabah, Hussein, El Gharib, Khalil, Assaad, Marc, Kassem, Ali, Mobarakai, Neville
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9399253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36032179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01597
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author Rabah, Hussein
El Gharib, Khalil
Assaad, Marc
Kassem, Ali
Mobarakai, Neville
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description We herein present the case presenting to our facility complaining of a fever of two months duration, who underwent dental procedure. Patient was diagnosed with infective endocarditis secondary to an uncommon bacteria: Gemella haemolysans. Patient was found to have concomitant severe mitral valve regurgitation. Our patient did not have any comorbidity or risk factor beside his dental procedure. Our patient received intravenous antibiotic therapy for six weeks and was scheduled for mitral valve replacement.
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spelling pubmed-93992532022-08-25 Gemella endocarditis Rabah, Hussein El Gharib, Khalil Assaad, Marc Kassem, Ali Mobarakai, Neville IDCases Case Report We herein present the case presenting to our facility complaining of a fever of two months duration, who underwent dental procedure. Patient was diagnosed with infective endocarditis secondary to an uncommon bacteria: Gemella haemolysans. Patient was found to have concomitant severe mitral valve regurgitation. Our patient did not have any comorbidity or risk factor beside his dental procedure. Our patient received intravenous antibiotic therapy for six weeks and was scheduled for mitral valve replacement. Elsevier 2022-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9399253/ /pubmed/36032179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01597 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Rabah, Hussein
El Gharib, Khalil
Assaad, Marc
Kassem, Ali
Mobarakai, Neville
Gemella endocarditis
title Gemella endocarditis
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title_full_unstemmed Gemella endocarditis
title_short Gemella endocarditis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9399253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36032179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01597
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