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Multiple episodes of bacterial endocarditis occurring over 9 years
1Lister Unit (for Infectious Diseases), Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, U.K.
The Journal of Infection
|May 1, 1991
Abstract:
We present a patient who was treated for bacterial endocarditis on 10 occasions in 9 years. In all but one of these episodes blood cultures were positive and the last two recurrences occurred on an aortic valve homograft. The pathogenesis of recurrent infective endocarditis in non-intravenous drug abusers is unclear and prevention of recurrences poses a difficult problem.