Infective Endocarditis and Pseudoaneurysm: Fatal Complications of Mitral Annular Calcification

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1881-1882

  Tsunekawa, Tomohiro ^a   Kobayashi, Junjiro ^a   Tagusari, Osamu ^a   Bando, Ko ^a   Niwaya, Kazuo ^a   Nakajima, Hiroyuki ^a   Yagihara, Toshikatsu ^a   Ishibashi Ueda, Hatsue ^a   Kitamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MITRAL ANNULAR CALCIFICATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, FALSE; CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 33646838190     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.05.091     Document Type: Article

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