[Clinical review: Fever and arthritis. Diagnosis: endocarditis due to enterococcus].
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Clinical signs of infective endocarditis are inespecific. Fever and heart murmur are the most frequent symptoms. Arthralgias's association is fairly common but presentation as polyarthritis is inusual. We report a cse of infective endocarditis that begins with subacute fever and polyarthritis.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Reumatologia clinica
دوره 3 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007