Late prosthetic valve endocarditis with Mycobacterium tuberculosis after the Bentall procedure

BACKGROUND: Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is a rare but severe complication of valve replacement surgery, with an incidence rate of 0.3–1.2% per patient-year. At present, staphylococci are the predominant causative microorganism of PVE. Herein, we report a confirmed case of late PVE in a mecha...

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Autores principales: Liu, Qianqian, Jin, Jialin, Shao, Lingyun, Weng, Shanshan, Zhou, Ju, Li, Feng, Zhang, Wenhong, Weng, Xinhua, Gao, Yan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6437957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30922382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12941-019-0314-0

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