introduction brucella endocarditis, although an uncommon complication of brucellosis, is the main cause of the mortality related to this disease. the best therapy is a combination of antibiotic administration with valve replacement. after treatment of the first episode of endocarditis, new infection may be occurred as a relapse or reinfection. case presentation in this report, we described a pa...

endocarditis is rarely reported in sheep and information presented for ovine endocarditis is based mostly on comparative findings in the cattle. infective vegetative endocarditis of the right heart was diagnosed in a 3-year-old fat-tailed ram. clinical findings included tachycardia, marked brisket edema, jugular veins distention and pulsation and pale mucous membranes. hematologic abnormality i...

enterococci are normal inhabitants of gastrointestinal tract, being responsible for 5 to 18% of infective endocarditis and the incidence appears to be increasing. eleven patients with enterococcal endocarditis were studied. in a case series group, 10 men (average 57 years) and one woman (37 years) were studied. two patients had rheumatic heart disease, 5 patients arteriosclerotic disease and on...

Letters " The AnAlgesic sTeplAdder-Missing rungs. " Editor, " On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. " Risk is an inevitable aspect of medical care with recent studies illustrating the potential harm that can be done to patients using diclofenac with a cardiac history and codeine in paediatric patients. These studies apply in both cases to small subsets of each...

The paper by Sacks and Doyle that is the focus of this debate resembles previous papers by Cheeseman and McDermott, leaping from the observation that a speciic application of some AI technology is unable to solve a problem to the conclusion that the technology itself is of limited value. We argue that claims such as this should be made more cautiously in the future, and make constructive sugges...

(See below for a definition of the Sacks property.) A “definable” variant of this question has been answered in [Sh 480]: Every nontrivial Souslin forcing notion which has the Sacks property has an uncountable antichain. (A Souslin forcing notion is a forcing notion for which the set of conditions, the comparability relation and the incompatibility relation are all analytic subsets of the reals...

L’endocardite de Libman-Sacks est une complication rare du syndrome des antiphospholipides. L’anticoagulation par anti-vitamine K le traitement référence, parfois associée à chirurgie. Dans les dernières recommandations EULAR, l’utilisation anticoagulants oraux directs déconseillée pour la prise en charge antiphospholipides, particulier cas profil haut risque. Nous rapportons d’une patiente 63 ...

Abstract A 53-year-old woman, with no previous cardiologic history, presented to our emergency department reporting a pleomorphic symptomatology that had been affecting her in the last few months. She complained weakness, dyspnea for severe exertion and intermittent atypical chest pain worsening supine position. The patient history of migraine aura. On admission she was asymptomatic apyretic. H...