Primary infectious endocarditis after arthroplasty in the early postoperative period
Abstract
The following clinical case of concomitant therapeutic pathology (infectious endocarditis – IE) proceeded in the early postoperative period under the guise of «syndrome of fever of unknown origin». Separate therapeutic pathology was considered as the complication of surgery of the joint, it is seemed to orthopedic consultants as the «infection of the surgical field». The reliability and stages of differential diagnosis depend on the characteristics of the IE course as well as the experience of doctors – consultants, since the differential diagnosis was beyond the «traumatology and orthopedics» speciality.
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ReferencesPronskikh E.A. – therapist
Luksha E.B. – candidate of medical sciences, head of functional and ultrasound studies department
Pavlov V.V. – doctor of medical sciences, chief researcher, head of department for hip replacement surgery and complications, е-mail: pavlovdoc@mail.ru
Luksha S.V. – doctor of ultrasonic diagnostics
Sirota V.S. – researcher of anesthesiology and intensive-care department
Kirilina S.I. – doctor of medical sciences, chief researcher of anesthesiology and intensive-care department
