we report the case of a male patient with community‑acquired quadruple‑valve endocarditis on presumed normal native valves.this patient had originally presented elsewhere with generalized edema and malaise and had been diagnosed with suspicious endocarditis and renal dysfunction, for which he unfortunately received incomplete treatment. transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic ex...

We present a case of a fifty-three-year-old male who presented with severe sepsis. He had been treated as a pneumonia patient for five months before the admission. Investigations revealed isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis and septic pulmonary embolism in addition to undiagnosed right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) obstruction. The patient underwent surgery for the relief of RVOT obstructi...

Acquired disease of the pulmonary valve requiring surgery is rare. We report the case of a 70-year-old male presenting with pulmonary valve insufficiency and pulmonary emboli originating from a thrombus formation adhering to the pulmonary valve occurring despite dicoumarol anticoagulation for previous aortic valve surgery. Two years ago he experienced Guillain-Barré syndrome and one year ago en...

introduction brucella endocarditis, although an uncommon complication of brucellosis, is the main cause of the mortality related to this disease. the best therapy is a combination of antibiotic administration with valve replacement. after treatment of the first episode of endocarditis, new infection may be occurred as a relapse or reinfection. case presentation in this report, we described a pa...

BACKGROUND Isolated pulmonary valve infective endocarditis caused by Candida is rare in chronic hemodialysis patients. The 2009 Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines suggest the combined use of surgery and antibiotics to treat candidiasis; however, successful nonsurgical treatment of Candida endocarditis has been reported. CASE PRESENTATION A 63-year-old woman with end-stage kidne...

Isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis (IPE) is an uncommon clinical entity. We reported 4 cases of IPE without underlying heart diseases that required surgical interventions. Two of the present patients had predisposing factors that included a history of abdominal surgery in Case 1 and intravenous drug abuse in Case 3. All four patients presented with persistent fever together with pulmonary sy...

The perplexing clinical course of a 23-year-old black male with isolated gonococcal pulmonary valvular endocarditis is presented. M-mode echocardiography provided the first clue to the presence of pulmonary valvular vegetations and the proper diagnosis. Since Neisseria gonorrhea appears to have a particular affinity for the pulmonary valve, the presence of isolated pulmonary valvular endocardit...

multiple aorto-cardiac cavity communications is very rare but important complication of prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis. the case below illustrates multiple aorto-cardiac cavity fistula formation following prostethic aortic valve endocarditis presented with slowly progressive symptoms of heart failure. a brief review of surgical reconstruction and the existing literature are presented, inc...

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The perplexing clinical course of a 23-year-old black male with isolated gonococcal pulmonary valvular endocarditis is presented. M-mode echocardiography provided the first clue to the presence of pulmonary valvular vegetations and the proper diagnosis. Since Neisseria gonorrhea appears to have a particular affinity for the pulmonary valve, the presence of isolated pulmonary valvular endocardit...