Quadricuspid Aortic Valve as Risk Factor for Infective Endocarditis
Journal Title: Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Quadricuspid aortic valve, an infective endocarditis’s risk factor, has the property inborn aortic valve disease but disease development not up to enough understood. Infective endocarditis is together with 1, 4% of the cases. Aortic regurgitation may be seen together and transesophageal echocardiography is important for these patients because of diagnosis. Our case, a thirty nine years old woman, was asymptomatic quadricuspid aortic valve with aort valve regurgitation and we diagnosed via transesophageal echocardiography. We recommended antibiotic prophylaxis and annual follow to the patient. J Microbiol Infect Dis 2018; 8(1):30-32
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Yahya Islamoglu, Cansu Tokat, Sumeyra Uysal
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