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A crusty cause of prosthetic valve endocarditis
1The Toronto Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. g.zahariadis@utoronto.ca
The Canadian Journal of Cardiology
|June 22, 1999
Abstract:
A 73-year-old man with two previous mitral valve replacements presented with prosthetic valve infective endocarditis. Ten days before hospitalization he had undergone minimally invasive cutaneous surgery for crusty lesions but had not received antibiotic prophylaxis. The current literature regarding the role of antibiotic prophylaxis in dermatological procedures is discussed along with the issues surrounding this patient.