Bacterial Endocarditis as a Possible Complication of Chronic Hemodialysis
| Autor: | Crews Hd, Ginn He, Goodman Js, Koenig Mg |
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| Rok vydání: | 1969 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Endocarditis Bacterial General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Uremia Surgery Bacterial endocarditis Renal Dialysis Streptococcal Infections Chronic glomerulonephritis Humans Kidney Failure Chronic Medicine Chronic renal failure Blood culture Chronic hemodialysis Hemodialysis Complication business |
| Zdroj: | New England Journal of Medicine. 280:876-877 |
| ISSN: | 1533-4406 0028-4793 |
| Popis: | THE management of chronic renal failure by intermittent hemodialysis entails a definite risk of bacteremic infection.1 , 2 However, an association of bacterial endocarditis with periodic hemodialysis has not previously been stressed. The occurrence of two cases of bacterial endocarditis among 47 patients participating in an intermittent-hemodialysis program prompts the present report. Case 1. A 32-year-old man with progressive symptoms of uremia from chronic glomerulonephritis was begun on biweekly hemodialysis through a surgically created subcutaneous arteriovenous shunt. Two months later his teeth were cleaned by a dentist. On the following day, he became febrile, and a blood culture taken at that time . . . |
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