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El cuadro clínico de la endocarditis infecciosa es inespecífico. La fiebre y la auscultación de un soplo cardíaco son los síntomas más frecuentes. La asociación de artralgias es relativamente común, y es inusual la presentación en forma de poliartritis. Presentamos un caso de endocarditis infecciosa que se inicia con clínica subaguda de fiebre y poliartritis.
Palabras clave:
Endocarditis
Poliartritis
Enterococo
Clinical signs of infective endocarditis are inespecific. Fever and heart murmur are the most frequent symptoms. Arthralgias’s association is fairly common but presentation as polyarthritis is inusual. We report a cse of infective endocarditis that begins with subacute fever and polyarthritis.
Key words:
Endocarditis
Polyarthritis
Enterococcus
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