Late prosthetic valve endocarditis with Mycobacterium tuberculosis after the Bentall procedure

• Autores principales: Qianqian Liu (Autor), Jialin Jin (Autor), Lingyun Shao (Autor), Shanshan Weng (Autor), Ju Zhou (Autor), Feng Li (Autor), Wenhong Zhang (Autor), Xinhua Weng (Autor), Yan Gao (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: 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...