Dehiscence of a Mechanical Aortic Valve Secondary to Culture-Negative Endocarditis Complicated by Acute Heart Failure

CASE (Phila). 2019 Jun 1;3(5):215-219. doi: 10.1016/j.case.2019.04.008. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Harry Klimis^{1

2

3}, Mikhail Altman^{1

2}, Richard Chard⁴, Michael Skinner², Liza Thomas^{1

2

5}

Affiliations

¹ University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia.
² Department of Cardiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, Australia.
³ Westmead Applied Research Centre, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Department of Cardiothoracics, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
⁵ South West Clinical School, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Aortic valve; Culture-negative endocarditis; Dehiscence; Infective endocarditis; Prosthetic valve endocarditis.

Publication types

Case Reports