Four Patients with Culture Negative, Afebrile Infective Endocarditis Who Mainly Showed Immunologic Phenomena
Korean Circulation Journal
; : 771-775, 1987.
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em Ko
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ABSTRACT
A total of 33 patients with infective endocarditis were observed in the Guro and Hye Hwa Hospitals of Korea University Between September, 1981 and Feb, 1987. Among thses patients four patients presented with heart murmur and heart failure and had vegetation like findings observed on the two dimensional echocardiography. But these patients did not have any fever or leukocytosis in the peripheral blood and the repeated blood cultures were negative. They showed the immunologic phenomena of infective endocarditis such as microscopic hematuria in 4 patients, rheumatoid factor in 3 patients, false positive VDRL in one patient. The serum complement was decreased in 2 patients in whom it was checked. We report these 4 patients because we think these patients might be in the clinical stage in which the infecting organism is spontaneously cleared but the immunologic sequelae are remained.
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Assunto principal:
Fator Reumatoide
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Proteínas do Sistema Complemento
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Ecocardiografia
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Sopros Cardíacos
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Endocardite
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Febre
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Insuficiência Cardíaca
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Hematúria
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Coreia (Geográfico)
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Leucocitose
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
Ko
Revista:
Korean Circulation Journal
Ano de publicação:
1987
Tipo de documento:
Article