Quadravalvular Noninfectious Endocarditis

Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis is characterized by sterile thrombi on cardiac valves. This report describes the case of nonbacterial endocarditis without pathologic findings of fibrin or platelet deposition. Quadrivalvular endocarditis was found to be due to immunoglobulin M heavy chain deposi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Vlismas, Peter P., Heymann, Jonas J., Marboe, Charles C., Jorde, Ulrich P., Sims, Daniel B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8288629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34316824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.07.026
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Sumario:Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis is characterized by sterile thrombi on cardiac valves. This report describes the case of nonbacterial endocarditis without pathologic findings of fibrin or platelet deposition. Quadrivalvular endocarditis was found to be due to immunoglobulin M heavy chain deposition. This was a case of nonbacterial, nonthrombotic quadrivalvular endocarditis, which was termed noninfective endocarditis. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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