1. Unreported neurological complications of Gemella bergeriae infective endocarditis.
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Hussain K, Abubaker J, Al Deesi ZO, and Ahmed R
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- Cerebral Angiography, Diagnosis, Differential, Echocardiography, Doppler, Endocarditis, Bacterial complications, Endocarditis, Bacterial microbiology, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections complications, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections microbiology, Humans, Intracranial Aneurysm etiology, Male, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Young Adult, Endocarditis, Bacterial diagnosis, Gemella isolation & purification, Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections diagnosis, Intracranial Aneurysm diagnosis
- Abstract
We report the first case of native aortic and mitral valve endocarditis due to Gemella bergeriae from the Middle East in a young patient with rheumatic heart disease. Our case illustrates a fulminant course of infection with G. bergeriae endocarditis that was complicated by embolic stroke, as well as intracerebral and subarachnoid haemorrhage secondary to rupture of a mycotic aneurysm in the right middle cerebral artery. This case highlights the dire, unreported neurological complications of infective endocarditis due to a rare causative organism-G. bergeriae., (2014 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.)
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- 2014
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