[Neurologic signs in bacterial endocarditis: an unusual case report]
We describe the case of a 35-year-old woman, hospitalised due to a fever lasting two days, with signs and symptoms of cerebro-spinal meningitis. The subsequent occurrence of a thromboembolic event with stroke suggests that the neurological symptoms were secondary to a centre of infective endocarditis (instrumentally proved) in the absence of further outstanding symptoms of endocarditis. This event is very unusual during the course of endocardic disease.
Tarquini
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Divisione Malattie Infettive, Ospedale Civile di Teramo, Italy.
Marani Toro
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