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This article reviews the published clinical experience of the use of the third-generation cephalosporins in the treatment of rare infections. Rare infections are defined as those caused by unusual pathogens or multi-resistant organisms as well as those occurring in unusual or pharmacologically protected body sites. Examples of such infections are uncommon causes of meningitis and ventriculitis, brain abscess, rare causes of bacterial endocarditis, metastatic Salmonella infections, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and liver abscess, late complications of Lyme borreliosis, uncommon Pseudomonas infections, and post-reconstructive surgery Aeromonas cellulitis. Although these data are largely anecdotal, they form a useful body of information, providing guidance on the management of similar problems encountered by other doctors, while suggesting areas of further investigation for the management of a variety of unusual infections with the third-generation cephalosporins.
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PMID:Third-generation cephalosporins in the treatment of rare infections. 218 6

Although in the last few years several cases of bacterial endocarditis have been reported in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, such as association is still infrequent and only in rare instances has pathologic examination of the cardiac lesions been possible. In this work a brief comment is made on the different forms of clinical presentation of the disease. The type of endocarditis, the relative incidence of responsible germs, and the prognosis are similar to those of other endocarditis. The clinical and autopsy findings of a female patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis and symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who developed a bacterial endocarditis of the mitral valve due to Staphylococcus aureus are reported. The patient died of an infected ascites. Some recent reports point to a higher incidence of bacterial endocarditis in cirrhotic patients, and this fact is felt to be an argument in favour of the hematogenous origin of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
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PMID:[Bacterial endocarditis and its relationships with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and hepatic cirrhosis (author's transl)]. 719 67

Transient bacteremia associated with various endoscopic procedures is a well-documented phenomenon. Clinically important bacteremias are very rarely seen, however, this malady has significant morbidity in susceptible patients with valvular heart disease, liver cirrhosis, malignancy and immune deficiency. This bacteremia is a complication that is generally observed secondary to upper endoscopy and other associated invasive procedures in at risk patients, and the more serious manifestations include spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, septic arthritis, meningitis, brain abscess and infective endocarditis. Infective endocarditis is an extremely rare complication of gastrointestinal endoscopy, and it has been convincingly documented in only seven cases. We report a case of native valve endocarditis due to Streptococcus intermedius in a patient with valvular heart disease as a consequence of routine upper endoscopy.
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PMID:Subacute bacterial endocarditis associated with upper endoscopy. 1551 8