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dc.contributor.author | Dahl, Anders | - |
dc.contributor.author | Miró Meda, José M. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bruun, Niels E. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-13T16:12:16Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-07-13T16:12:16Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019-12-11 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1945-4589 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/179035 | - |
dc.description.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. | - |
dc.format.extent | 2 p. | - |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
dc.language.iso | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Impact Journals | - |
dc.relation.isformatof | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102619 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Aging, 2019, vol. 11, num. 23, p. 10786-10787 | - |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.102619 | - |
dc.rights | cc-by (c) Dahl, Anders et al., 2019 | - |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | - |
dc.source | Articles publicats en revistes (Medicina) | - |
dc.subject.classification | Endocarditis | - |
dc.subject.classification | Ecocardiografia | - |
dc.subject.other | Endocarditis | - |
dc.subject.other | Echocardiography | - |
dc.title | Enterococcus faecalis bacteremia: please do the echo | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | - |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | - |
dc.identifier.idgrec | 695891 | - |
dc.date.updated | 2021-07-13T16:12:16Z | - |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 31831716 | - |
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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