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[Myocardial infarction as a consequence of infective endocarditis in valvar bioprosthesis]
M J Figueiredo1, M de F Ebert, E Kreithon
1Faculdade de Ciências Médicas-UNICAMP, Campinas, SP.
Arquivos Brasileiros De Cardiologia
|February 1, 1992
Abstract:
A sixteen year-old male, followed in the Unicamp Cardiology Clinic with a previous record of rheumatic heart disease and a biological mitral prosthesis, presented with infective endocarditis. In spite of a good initial response to antibiotic therapy, the patient died in two weeks. Autopsy disclosed endocarditis of the prosthetic valve and embolic occlusion of the circumflex branch of left coronary artery.