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Two coincidental neurological complications as a presenting form of infectious endocarditis.

Testa-Fernandez A, Gonzalez-Juanatey C, Pego-Reigosa R, Gonzalez-Gay MA

A 46-year-old man with two consecutive neurological events (an ischemic stroke and an intracerebral hemorrhage) is presented. Streptococcus bovis biotype I was found in blood cultures and echocardiography showed native mitral valve mobile vegetations. The patient died due to the extension of intracerebral hemorrhage.

Published 6 April 2007 in Int J Cardiol, 117(3): e107-8.
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