Mild stroke symptoms as the initial presentation of a patient with underlying subacute bacterial endocarditis
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Mild stroke symptoms as the initial presentation of a patient with underlying subacute bacterial endocarditis
Abstract
We describe a patient with sub-acute bacterial endocarditis, whose chief presenting feature was mild expressive dysphasia.
Keywords: embolic infarcts.; subacute bacterial endocarditis.
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