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  • Title: Post-parturition infectious endocarditis in a patient with a normal mitral valve.
    Author: Murai N, Katayama Y, Imazeki T, Gon S, Yoshida H, Hata I.
    Journal: Jpn J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg; 1999 Apr; 47(4):171-3. PubMed ID: 10358948.
    Abstract:
    A 29-year-old woman with no history of heart disease was admitted for the treatment of congestive heart failure. Six months earlier, she had given birth, then 20 days later developed a fever and cardiac failure ensued. An echocardiogram demonstrated severe mitral valve regurgitation. Her blood cultures were positive, and we made a diagnosis of mitral valve regurgitation due to infectious endocarditis. Despite treatment for congestive heart failure and antibiotic therapy, resulting in negative blood cultures, her congestive heart failure did not improve, and vegetation on the mitral valve was observed by echocardiography. We successfully removed the infected tissue with mitral valve plasty.
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