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SUBMITTER: Tzortzis S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2584086 | biostudies-other | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Tzortzis Stavros S Apostolakis Stavros S Xenakis Konstantinos K Spiropoulos Georgios G Lazaridis Kyriakos K
Cases journal 20081024 1
<h4>Background</h4>Intravascular catheters provide necessary vascular access, for intravenous therapy, blood sampling and pressure monitoring. However, their use is often associated with serious local and systemic complications including local site infection, intravascular catheter-related bloodstream infections, septic thrombophlebitis, and endocarditis.<h4>Case presentation</h4>We present a case of a 72 year old postoperative patient presented with persistent fever. Transthoracic and transesop ...[more]