Unusual mechanism of myocardial infarction in prosthetic valve endocarditis

A 46-year-old man with bicuspid aortic valve and severe calcific aortic stenosis was submitted to aortic valve replacement with a stented bioprosthesis. He developed Staphylococcus epidermidis prosthetic valve endocarditis a month later, presenting in the emergency room with acute myocardial infarct...

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Autores principales: Atik, Fernando A, Campos, Vanessa G, da Cunha, Claudio R, de Oliveira, Felipe Bezerra Martins, Otto, Maria Estefânia Bosco, Monte, Guilherme U
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26045678
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S61348

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448920/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26045678
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IMCRJ.S61348

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