Highlights a rare presentation of isolated native pulmonary valve endocarditis in a patient without typical risk factors such as structural heart disease or intravenous drug use.
Clinicians should consider isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis even without classic risks; this case extends the known spectrum but remains hypothesis-generating.
We present a case of a febrile patient in his 70s who was found to have isolated native pulmonary valve vegetations on echocardiography, and Enterococcus faecalis on blood cultures. Of note, our patient had none of the typical risk factors associated with this rare form of endocarditis previously described in only a handful of case reports.
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