"Let the Cat Out of the Heart": Clinical Characteristics of Patients Presenting With Blood Culture-Negative Endocarditis Due to Species

Overview

Journal Open Forum Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2023 Jul 31

PMID 37520412

Authors

Eloy E Ordaya

Omar M Abu Saleh

Maryam Mahmood

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Abstract

Patients with blood culture-negative endocarditis due to infection frequently presented with fever, cytopenias, kidney failure, and positive PR3-ANCA. IgG titers were variable. Patients commonly underwent surgery with overall low mortality.

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