Active Infective Endocarditis Involving All Four Cardiac Valves

A case is presented of a 70-year-old man treated for 3 months for necrotizing pancreatitis with multiorgan failure. The autopsy revealed enterococcal endocarditis affecting all eleven valvular cusps of the four heart valves.

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cardiovascular pathology 2000-09, Vol.9 (5), p.293-296
Hauptverfasser:	Steiner, Ivo, Nikolov, Dimitar Hadzi, Havel, Eduard, Zapomelova, Lenka
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Diagnosis, Differential Endocarditis, Bacterial - complications Endocarditis, Bacterial - pathology Fatal Outcome Heart Valve Diseases - etiology Heart Valve Diseases - pathology Heart Valves - pathology Humans Male
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Zusammenfassung:	A case is presented of a 70-year-old man treated for 3 months for necrotizing pancreatitis with multiorgan failure. The autopsy revealed enterococcal endocarditis affecting all eleven valvular cusps of the four heart valves.
ISSN:	1054-8807 1879-1336
DOI:	10.1016/S1054-8807(00)00033-8