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KMID : 0984720030350050345
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Infection and Chemotherapy
2003 Volume.35 No. 5 p.345 ~ p.349
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Two Cases of Haemophilus parainfluenzae endocarditis
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Ryu Kum-Hei
Choi Hee-Jung
Park Si-Hoon
Park Seong-Hoon
Lee Mi-Ae
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Abstract
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HACEK organisms are the normal flora of upper respiratory tract and orophaynx. They infect abnormal cardiac valves, causing subacute native valve endocarditis or prosthetic valve endocarditis more than one year after valve surgery. Haemophilus species are responsible for only 0.51% of all infectious endocarditis cases. Embolization occurs in 60% and the mortality rate ranges from 1645% of cases of infective endocarditis caused by H. parainfluenzae. We report two cases of H. parainfluenzae endocarditis, one of them is a 25yearold male with tricuspid valve vegetations complicated with pulmonary embolism and the other is a 22yearold female presented with heart failure.
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KEYWORD
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Haemophilus parainfluenzae, HACEK, Infective endocarditis
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