1. Massive vegetation in device-related endocarditis
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Raman Uberoi, Julian O M Ormerod, Timothy R. Betts, and Amar Keiralla
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Prosthesis-Related Infections ,Ventricular lead ,business.industry ,Endocarditis, Bacterial ,030229 sport sciences ,Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,medicine.disease ,Defibrillators, Implantable ,Surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,Treatment Outcome ,0302 clinical medicine ,Streptococcal Infections ,Humans ,Medicine ,Endocarditis ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Vegetation (pathology) ,Device Removal ,Aged - Abstract
A 71-year-old man was transferred to the extraction centre with Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis and a 3.5 × 1.7 cm vegetation adherent to the ventricular lead of his 7-year-old secondary-prevention dual chamber ICD (see Panel A and Supplementary material online, Videos S1–S3). He had been initially managed medically but the vegetation …
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- 2015
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