Culture-positive and culture-negative endocarditis in patients with cancer: a retrospective observational study, 1994-2004.

Yusuf, Syed Wamique; Ali, Syed S; Swafford, Joseph; Durand, Jean-Bernard; Bodey, Gerald P; Chemaly, Roy F; Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P; Tarrand, Jeffery; Rolston, Kenneth V; Yeh, Edward; Raad, Issam I; Safdar, Amar

Yusuf, Syed Wamique; Ali, Syed S; Swafford, Joseph; Durand, Jean-Bernard; Bodey, Gerald P; Chemaly, Roy F; Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P; Tarrand, Jeffery; Rolston, Kenneth V; Yeh, Edward; Raad, Issam I; Safdar, Amar.

Affiliation

Yusuf SW; From Department of Cardiology (SWY, SSA, JS, J-BD, EY); Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control, and Employee Health (GPB, RFC, DPK, KVR, IIR, AS); and Department of Laboratory Medicine (JT); The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

Medicine (Baltimore) ; 85(2): 86-94, 2006 Mar.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16609347

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Endocarditis, Bacterial/complications; Endocarditis/complications; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/complications; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections/complications; Neoplasms/complications; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Echocardiography; Echocardiography, Transesophageal; Endocarditis/diagnosis; Endocarditis, Bacterial/diagnosis; Endocarditis, Bacterial/mortality; Endocarditis, Bacterial/pathology; Female; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/diagnosis; Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/pathology; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections/diagnosis; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections/pathology; Heart/microbiology; Humans; Intracranial Embolism/diagnosis; Intracranial Embolism/etiology; Intracranial Embolism/pathology; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Myocardial Infarction/diagnosis; Myocardial Infarction/etiology; Myocardial Infarction/pathology; Neoplasms/microbiology; Neoplasms/therapy; Pulmonary Embolism/diagnosis; Pulmonary Embolism/etiology; Pulmonary Embolism/pathology; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Staphylococcal Infections/complications; Staphylococcal Infections/diagnosis; Staphylococcal Infections/pathology; Staphylococcus aureus/isolation & purification; Thromboembolism/diagnosis; Thromboembolism/etiology; Thromboembolism/pathology

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Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Endocarditis / Endocarditis, Bacterial / Neoplasms Type of study: Diagnostic_studies / Etiology_studies / Observational_studies Language: En Journal: Medicine (Baltimore) Year: 2006 Type: Article

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