Associating enterococcal endocarditis and colorectal neoplasia: is colonoscopy mandatory?

Affiliations

¹ Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain. Electronic address: Juan.Corredoira.Sanchez@sergas.es.
² Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain.
³ Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Pi i Sunyer. University of Barcelona, Spain.

Comment

J Corredoira et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar:85:112-113.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.11.010. Epub 2020 Nov 20.

¹ Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain. Electronic address: Juan.Corredoira.Sanchez@sergas.es.
² Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain.
³ Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques Pi i Sunyer. University of Barcelona, Spain.

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Keywords: Colonic cancer; Enterococcus faecalis; Infective endocarditis; colonoscopy.

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Associating enterococcal endocarditis and colorectal neoplasia: is colonoscopy mandatory? - Authors' reply.
Bertolino L, Ursi MP, Zampino R, Durante-Mangoni E. Bertolino L, et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2021 Mar;85:114-115. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.12.016. Epub 2020 Dec 31. Eur J Intern Med. 2021. PMID: 33390321 No abstract available.

Enterococcal infective endocarditis is a marker of current occult or future incident colorectal neoplasia.
Ursi MP, Bertolino L, Andini R, D'Amico F, Iossa D, Karruli A, D'Avenia E, Manduca S, Bernardo M, Zampino R, Durante-Mangoni E. Ursi MP, et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2021 Jan;83:68-73. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.10.006. Epub 2020 Oct 9. Eur J Intern Med. 2021. PMID: 33046347