Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis
Death certificate inaccuracy is of major concern both in the public health domain and in individual health care, since it may yield untruthful data on the incidence, prevalence, and lethality of medical entities, and may hamper prophylactic measures among those who share, with the deceased, the comm...
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| author | Rodrigo Tzovenos Starosta Raquel Rivero Francine Hehn de Oliveira Eron Lopes Marcelle Reesink Cerski |
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| description | Death certificate inaccuracy is of major concern both in the public health domain and in individual health care, since it may yield untruthful data on the incidence, prevalence, and lethality of medical entities, and may hamper prophylactic measures among those who share, with the deceased, the common genetic, environmental, or behavioral risk factors. An effective way to settle this haziness relies on the increase of autopsy performance, increasing manifold the exactitude as well as facing surprising diagnoses. In this report, the authors present the case of a middle-aged woman who sought medical care because of back pain accompanied by weight loss. She died suddenly and unexpectedly in the Emergency Room. In this case, due to the unusual clinical presentation and the patient’s unexpected death, the causa mortis would not have been elucidated if the autopsy had not been undertaken |
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| spelling | doaj.art-45bef774a5d8423cb4a69eaa9a163c062022-12-21T22:58:22ZengUniversity of São PauloAutopsy and Case Reports2236-19602016-09-016310.4322/acr.2016.042Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditisRodrigo Tzovenos Starosta0Raquel Rivero1Francine Hehn de Oliveira2Eron Lopes3Marcelle Reesink Cerski4Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Faculty of MedicineUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Service of Surgical PathologyUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Service of Surgical PathologyUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Service of Surgical PathologyUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Service of Surgical PathologyDeath certificate inaccuracy is of major concern both in the public health domain and in individual health care, since it may yield untruthful data on the incidence, prevalence, and lethality of medical entities, and may hamper prophylactic measures among those who share, with the deceased, the common genetic, environmental, or behavioral risk factors. An effective way to settle this haziness relies on the increase of autopsy performance, increasing manifold the exactitude as well as facing surprising diagnoses. In this report, the authors present the case of a middle-aged woman who sought medical care because of back pain accompanied by weight loss. She died suddenly and unexpectedly in the Emergency Room. In this case, due to the unusual clinical presentation and the patient’s unexpected death, the causa mortis would not have been elucidated if the autopsy had not been undertakenhttp://www.revistas.usp.br/autopsy/article/view/125420EndocarditisSubacute BacterialStreptococcusLeriche Syndrome |
| spellingShingle | Rodrigo Tzovenos Starosta Raquel Rivero Francine Hehn de Oliveira Eron Lopes Marcelle Reesink Cerski Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis Autopsy and Case Reports Endocarditis Subacute Bacterial Streptococcus Leriche Syndrome |
| title | Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis |
| title_full | Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis |
| title_fullStr | Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis |
| title_short | Misdiagnosis of Streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis |
| title_sort | misdiagnosis of streptococcus gallolyticus endocarditis |
| topic | Endocarditis Subacute Bacterial Streptococcus Leriche Syndrome |
| url | http://www.revistas.usp.br/autopsy/article/view/125420 |
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