Mycobacterium fortuitum Endocarditis After Mitral Valve Replacement With a Bovine Prosthesis

1 July 1985

journal article
Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal

Vol. 78 (7) , 865-866
https://doi.org/10.1097/00007611-198507000-00023

Abstract

We have described a patient who had mitral valve replacement with a bovine prosthesis, followed by infectious endocarditis caused by Mycobacterium fortuitum. We found no previous reports of endocarditis caused by this organism involving a biologic heart prosthesis.

Keywords

MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM
REPLACEMENT
MITRAL
VALVE
ENDOCARDITIS CAUSED
HEART
PREVIOUS

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