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Postmortem blood cultures
Author(s) -
SCHØNHEYDER HENRIK C.,
HENRIQUES ULRIK
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
apmis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0903-4641
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1997.tb00543.x
Subject(s) - autopsy , medicine , blood culture , surgery , staphylococcus aureus , pathology , antibiotics , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , bacteria
Postmortem blood cultures were obtained by separate puncture of the right and left side of the heart during autopsy of 18 patients with solid cancer and 26 patients with non‐neoplastic diseases. Concordant isolates were obtained from the right and left side in six patients (14%, 95% confidence limits: 5–28%). Growth was unilateral in 7 patients and cardiac aspirates were sterile in 31 patients (70%, 95% CL: 55–83%). One patient had been treated for Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia and eight patients had negative premortem blood cultures. Separate culture of blood from the right and left side of the heart may add to the information gained by postmortem blood culture.