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Record W212430952 · doi:10.1155/2002/368904

A Case of Endocarditis: When Three Equals One

2002· article· en· W212430952 on OpenAlexaff
Kiran Kaur Kundhal, Andrew M. Morris

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineEndocarditisInternal medicineAortic valveCardiologyAortic valve replacementSurgeryLeukocytosisBlood cultureStenosis

Abstract

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400 A32 year-old male smoker presented to the emergency room with increasing breathlessness over two weeks. Past history was unremarkable, including no history of rheumatic fever, heart murmurs, intravenous drug use or recent invasive procedures. Oral hygiene was poor, and an aortic insufficiency murmur was heard on physical examination. Blood work revealed leukocytosis (white blood cells=18.3×109/L), hyperglycemia (serum blood glucose=17.8 mmol/L) and ketoacidosis. A chest radiograph displayed cardiomegaly, pulmonary edema and bilateral pneumonia. Serial electrocardiograms showed ST elevation in the precordial leads and troponin I was 4 μg/L. Two initial blood cultures grew coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS). The patient was treated with levofloxacin and vancomycin, along with usual therapy for hyperglycemia, congestive heart failure and acute coronary syndrome. A transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) revealed severe aortic insufficiency, an aortic root abscess and a large cauliflower-shaped vegetation extending into the aortic valve. The patient underwent urgent aortic valve replacement and pericardial closure of the abscess. Two preoperative blood cultures each grew Staphylococcus warneri and Staphylococcus haemolyticus, as speciated by VITEK (bioMerieux, USA). Intraoperative aortic valve and pericardial fluid cultures, as well as two postoperative blood cultures, grew Staphylococcus epidermidis and S warneri, which were also speciated by VITEK. The automated antibiograms produced by VITEK for the various isolates differed, which is consistent with a polymicrobial endocarditis. The patient was treated with vancomycin, rifampin and gentamicin (to which all isolates were sensitive), but worsened clinically and demonstrated persistent fever. What is your diagnosis? What would you recommend?

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.027

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.238
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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