ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2019
Lesson of the month 2: When steroids stop working - infective endocarditis, the great mimicker.
Article in Clinical medicine (London, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The First Case ofMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Pooled it
- Infective endocarditis complicated with multiple cerebral embolism and hemorrhage caused byFrontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Infective endocarditis caused by Streptococcus sinensis diagnosed with next-generation sequencing: a case report and literature review.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Review
- Infective Endocarditis Caused byInfection and drug resistance · 2024Article
- A New Clinical Prediction Rule for Infective Endocarditis in Emergency Department Patients With Fever: Definition and First Validation of the CREED Score.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Observational
- Case report: Infective endocarditis caused byFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
A 63-year-old man with an extensive travel history to South East Asia presented with generalised malaise, temporal headaches and high inflammatory markers. He was treated with corticosteroids for presumed giant cell arteritis. Unsuccessful attempts to wean him from prednisolone prompted further investigations by rheumatology, haematology and finally ophthalmology. Roth spots were identified which prompted blood cultures to be taken. All three sets grew
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