Late prosthetic valve endocarditis with Mycobacterium tuberculosis after the Bentall procedure

• Main Authors: Qianqian Liu (Author), Jialin Jin (Author), Lingyun Shao (Author), Shanshan Weng (Author), Ju Zhou (Author), Feng Li (Author), Wenhong Zhang (Author), Xinhua Weng (Author), Yan Gao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is a rare but severe complication of valve replacement surgery, with an incidence rate of 0.3-1.2% per patient-year. At present, staphylococci are the predominant causative microorganism of PVE. Herein, we report a confirmed case of late PVE in...