Listeria Monocytogenes Pericarditis in the Immune Compromised: A Case Report in a Newly Diagnosed Alpha Light Chain Cardiac Amyloidosis Patient

Isr Med Assoc J. 2019 Oct;21(10):696-697.

Authors

Itai Ghersin¹, Omar Abu Alheija^{2

3}, Zaher S Azzam^{1

4}, Roni Nasser¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine "B", Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Holy Family Hospital, Nazareth, Israel.
³ Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
⁴ Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.

PMID: 31599514

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Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

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Amyloidosis* / complications
Amyloidosis* / diagnostic imaging
Amyloidosis* / physiopathology
Echocardiography / methods
Electrocardiography / methods
Fatal Outcome
Heart Failure* / diagnosis
Heart Failure* / etiology
Heart Failure* / physiopathology
Humans
Hypotension* / diagnosis
Hypotension* / etiology
Immunocompromised Host
Listeria monocytogenes / isolation & purification*
Listeriosis* / complications
Listeriosis* / diagnosis
Listeriosis* / physiopathology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine / methods
Male
Patient Care Management / methods
Pericarditis* / complications
Pericarditis* / microbiology
Pericarditis* / physiopathology
Pericarditis* / therapy
Prognosis