Left atrial myxoma and mitral valve endocarditis - A cause and effect: A case report

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 27-28

  Quigley, Robert L ^a   Meursing, Diederik F ^a   Rossman, Morris I ^a  

^a Jefferson Health System Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; GENTAMICIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIOPLEGIA; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALAISE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYXOMA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; MYXOMA;

EID: 33845290309     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20051152     Document Type: Article

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