Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Streptococcus constellatus infection complicated with perivalvular abscess: Serial observation by transesophageal echocardiography: A case report

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 129-133

  Ejima, Koichiro ^a,b   Ishizuka, Naoko ^a   Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Tanimoto, Kyomi ^a   Shoda, Morio ^a   Kasanuki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SEIREI HAMAMATSU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echocardiography, transesophageal; Endocarditis (infectious); Prosthetic valves

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; HEART PERIVALVULAR ABSCESS; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ABSCESS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ABSCESS; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS;

EID: 0142010110     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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