| Title | Mural vegetations at the site of endocardial trauma in infective endocarditis complicating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis. | | Author(s) | LeJemtel TH, Factor SM, Koenigsberg M, O'Reilly M, Frater R, Sonnenblick EH | | Source | Am J Cardiol 1979 Sep; 44(3):569-74. | | MeSH | Aged
Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic
Echocardiography
Endocarditis, Bacterial
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Wounds and Injuries
| | Abstract | In two patients infective endocarditis developed as the primary manifestation of idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis. Infected vegetations were present on the mitral and aortic valves. In addition, bacterial vegetations were observed on the septal endocardium at the site of contact between the mitral valve leaflet and the hypertrophic septum. Thus, chronic endocardial trauma, a common finding in idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, may provide a fertile nidus for the development of bacterial vegetation. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Case Reports
Journal Article
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
| | PubMed ID | 573057 |
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