A Brewing Back Pain

N Engl J Med. 2021 Jul 1;385(1):66-72. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcps2034802.

Authors

Lauren Pischel¹, Arnar Geirsson¹, John Magaldi¹, Richard A Martinello¹, Alfred I Lee¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases (L.P.), the Division of Cardiac Surgery (A.G.), the Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (R.A.M.), and the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Hematology (A.I.L.), Yale School of Medicine, the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health (L.P.), and the Department of Infection Prevention, Yale New Haven Health (R.A.M.), New Haven, and Hartford Hospital, Hartford (J.M.) - all in Connecticut.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

Aged
Anemia / etiology
Back Pain / etiology*
Biopsy
Blood Chemical Analysis
Delayed Diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Echocardiography, Transesophageal
Endocarditis / complications
Endocarditis / diagnosis*
Endocarditis / pathology
Exanthema / etiology
Exanthema / pathology
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / complications
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / diagnosis*
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / pathology
Humans
Immunoglobulin M / blood
Immunoglobulin M / urine
Lactobacillus / isolation & purification*
Male
Mitral Valve / diagnostic imaging*
Mitral Valve / pathology
Paraproteinemias / diagnosis
Skin / pathology

Substances

Immunoglobulin M

Grants and funding

T32 AI007517/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States