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Kinsing Ko1, Saloua El Messaoudi2, Frederik van den Heuvel2
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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Mitral annular abscesses are rare and can be caused by infective endocarditis. We present the case of a patient with an infected mitral prosthesis, with multiple suspected periprosthetic abscesses. However, perioperative inspection showed a supra-annular implanted prosthesis.

