Abstracts tagged "clinical research and infection"

Abstract Number: 1328 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Infective Endocarditis with Septic Arthritis: A Single-Center Experience
Sarah B. Lieber¹, Robert Shmerling², Andy Moore³, Mary Louise Fowler⁴, Kunwal Nasrullah⁵ and Ziv Paz¹, ¹Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²Rheumatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ³Division of Rheumatology, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁴Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, ⁵Boston University Medical School, BOSTON, MA
Background/Purpose: Echocardiogram is frequently performed on patients presenting with septic arthritis (SA) but rarely demonstrates evidence of infective endocarditis (IE). Similarly, while patients with IE…