Infective endocarditis with left to right intracardiac fistula due to Streptococcus anginosus - a rare complication caused by an even rarer bacterium

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Robert Forster (مؤلف), Fernando Peixoto Ferraz de Campos (مؤلف), Silvana Maria Lovisolo (مؤلف), Vera Demarchi Aiello (مؤلف), João Augusto dos Santos Martines (مؤلف)
• التنسيق: كتاب
• منشور في: University of São Paulo, 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• الموضوعات: article
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Although infective endocarditis (IE) has been described in reports dating from the Renaissance, the diagnosis still challenges and the outcome often surprises. In the course of time, diagnostic criteria have been updated and validated to reduce misdiagnosis. Some risk factors and epidemiology have s...