Culture Negative Stent Infection in an Infant with Hypoplastic Left Heart and Persistent Fever

We present an infant with hypoplastic left heart with persistent fever despite two courses of antibiotics and repeatedly negative blood cultures. He eventually underwent surgical extraction of two stents. The stent cultures became positive; he was treated with 4 weeks of antibiotics and the fever re...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kurt D. Piggott, Federico Laham, Alejandro Jordan Villegas, Harun Fakioglu, Carlos Blanco, Sukumar Suguna Narasimhulu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Cardiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/496108