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Title: | Enterococcus faecalis bacteremia: please do the echo |
Author: | Dahl, Anders Miró Meda, José M. Bruun, Niels E. |
Keywords: | Endocarditis Ecocardiografia Endocarditis Echocardiography |
Issue Date: | 11-Dec-2019 |
Publisher: | Impact Journals |
Abstract: | Infective endocarditis (IE) caused by Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis) is a disease of the elderly with an increasing incidence, often health-care associated and with in-hospital mortality rates around 10-20%. E. faecalis IE is notoriously challenging to diagnose due to unspecific symptoms, often presenting with a complex clinical picture with low-grade fever and only moderately elevated infectious parameters. In a newly published prospective multicenter study using echocardiography to screen E. faecalis bacteremia patients, we found an IE prevalence as high as 26%. The 344 included patients with E. faecalis bacteremia had a mean age of 74 (±12) years confirming that it is indeed a disease of the elderly. The key feature of the study was that echocardiography was performed in all patients including transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in 74%. Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) missed vegetations in half of the cases where TEE demonstrated vegetations, underlining the importance of TEE. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102619 |
It is part of: | Aging, 2019, vol. 11, num. 23, p. 10786-10787 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/179035 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102619 |
ISSN: | 1945-4589 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (IDIBAPS: Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer) Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina) |
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