Pulmonic valve endocarditis.
Tariq M, Smego RA Jr, Soofi A, Islam N.
Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan. muhammed.tariq@aku.edu
Pulmonic valve endocarditis is an extremely rare infection that shares epidemiologic, clinical, radiologic, microbiologic, and prognostic features with tricuspid valve endocarditis. We report a case of pulmonic valve infection on a structurally normal heart and review the English-language literature on this subject.
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PMID: 12938795 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]