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ArticleOpen forum infectious diseases2014

Fatal acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a total artificial heart (syncardia) device.

Susanna K Tan, Kiran Gajurel, Christie Tung, Gregory Albers, Stan Deresinski, Jose G Montoya, Ahmad Y Sheikh, Dipanjan Banerjee, Richard Ha

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Article in Open forum infectious diseases, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Susanna K TanDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine , Stanford University School of Medicine.
Kiran GajurelDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine , Stanford University School of Medicine.
Christie TungDepartment of Neurology & Neurological Sciences , Stanford University School of Medicine.
Gregory AlbersDepartment of Neurology & Neurological Sciences , Stanford University School of Medicine.
Stan DeresinskiDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine , Stanford University School of Medicine.
Jose G MontoyaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine , Stanford University School of Medicine.
Ahmad Y SheikhDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery , Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dipanjan BanerjeeDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine , Stanford University School of Medicine , California.
Richard HaDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery , Stanford University School of Medicine.

Funding

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASEST32AI007502 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Prasanna Jagannathan, DAVID A. RELMAN · 1995 to 2026
$6.8M
NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007502
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acanthamoeba encephalitis is an uncommon but often fatal infection complication. Here we report the first case of Acanthamoeba encephalitis in a patient with a Total Artificial Heart device.

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Acanthamoebaencephalitisheart failuretotal artificial heart

Identifiers

PMID25734127
PMCPMC4281817

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