Acquired ventricular septal defect and tricuspid valve disruption as a complication of infective endocarditis of the aortic valve

Mansur, A.J.; Grinberg, M.; Lopes, E.A.; Macruz, R.; Pillegi, F.

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 24(6): 669-671

1983


ISSN/ISBN: 0021-9509
PMID: 6654983
Document Number: 213246
Ventricular septal defect is a rare complication of infective endocarditis. This is a case report of a 48-year-old man with chronic alcoholism without known previous heart disease who developed a ventricular septal defect and a tricuspid valve disruption in the course of a fatal infective endocarditis of the aortic valve.

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