1. Successful treatment of relapsed enterococcal endocarditis with amoxicillin/clavulanate: A case report
- Author
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Zeinelabdien Elsherif, Mohammad Bosaeed, Reem Abanamy, and Ebrahim Mahmoud
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0301 basic medicine ,Oral ,medicine.medical_specialty ,CBC, complete blood count ,030106 microbiology ,Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 ,Gastroenterology ,Enterococcus faecalis ,Article ,Augmentin ,Valve ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Case report ,medicine ,Endocarditis ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Relapse ,Oral therapy ,Prosthetic ,ComputingMethodologies_COMPUTERGRAPHICS ,Prosthetic valve ,ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate ,AMOXICILLIN/CLAVULANATE ,biology ,business.industry ,eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate ,TEE, transesophageal echocardiography ,Amoxicillin ,JVP, jugular venous pressure ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Infectious Diseases ,IE, infective endocarditis ,Enterococcus ,CRP, C-reactive protein ,Amoxicillin-clavulanate ,business ,Enterococcal endocarditis ,medicine.drug ,POET, The Partial Oral Treatment of Endocarditis Trial - Abstract
Graphical abstract, Enterococcus is considered to be a common cause of endocarditis with unfavorable outcomes. We report a case of successful treatment of relapsed prosthetic valve Enterococcus faecalis endocarditis with oral amoxicillin/clavulanate. Enterococcal endocarditis is associated with a high relapse rate, even with the recommended treatment duration by the guidelines. Oral therapy is increasingly considered as part of the management of such serious infections.
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- 2020