A CASE OF RECURRENT CORYNEBACTERIUM JEIKEIUM ENDOCARDITIS: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC ENDOVASCULAR INFECTIONS

A case of recurrent Corynebacterium jeikeium endocarditis: Unanswered questions for the treatment of chronic endovascular infections

A 53-year-old woman with end-stage renal impairment on hemodialysis was evaluated for recurrent episodes of Corynebacterium jeikeium bacteremia and endocarditis.Her recurrences occurred despite click here surgical debridement and extended courses of culture-directed antimicrobial therapy.The clinical course was complicated by the ucsb gaucho blue r

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A framework for clinical reasoning in adult cardiology

Carlos S de la Calzada Department of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, SpainAbstract: It is well known that an expert clinician formulates a diagnostic hypothesis with little clinical data.In comparison, students have difficulties in doing so.The mental mechanism of diagnostic click here reasoning is almost unconscious and t

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