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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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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 |
author_facet | 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/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Rabah, Hussein El Gharib, Khalil Assaad, Marc Kassem, Ali Mobarakai, Neville Gemella endocarditis |
title | Gemella endocarditis |
title_full | Gemella endocarditis |
title_fullStr | Gemella endocarditis |
title_full_unstemmed | Gemella endocarditis |
title_short | Gemella endocarditis |
title_sort | gemella endocarditis |
topic | Case Report |
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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