Native Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum: A Case Report and Literature Review

Endocarditis secondary to Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rare entity often involving prosthetic valves and rarely native valves. Pulmonic valve endocarditis secondary to any organism is rare. We report the first case of native pulmonic valve endocarditis secondary to M. fortuitum and a literature revi...

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Autores principales: Mulhall, Aaron M., Hebbeler-Clark, Renee S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4475710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26167313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/274819
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description Endocarditis secondary to Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rare entity often involving prosthetic valves and rarely native valves. Pulmonic valve endocarditis secondary to any organism is rare. We report the first case of native pulmonic valve endocarditis secondary to M. fortuitum and a literature review of native valve M. fortuitum endocarditis.
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spelling pubmed-44757102015-07-12 Native Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum: A Case Report and Literature Review Mulhall, Aaron M. Hebbeler-Clark, Renee S. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Endocarditis secondary to Mycobacterium fortuitum is a rare entity often involving prosthetic valves and rarely native valves. Pulmonic valve endocarditis secondary to any organism is rare. We report the first case of native pulmonic valve endocarditis secondary to M. fortuitum and a literature review of native valve M. fortuitum endocarditis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4475710/ /pubmed/26167313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/274819 Text en Copyright © 2015 A. M. Mulhall and R. S. Hebbeler-Clark. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Native Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr Native Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed Native Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short Native Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis due to Mycobacterium fortuitum: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort native pulmonic valve endocarditis due to mycobacterium fortuitum: a case report and literature review
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