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Pulmonic valve endocarditis is an extremely rare infection that shares epidemiologic, clinical, radiologic, microbiologic, and prognostic features with tricuspid valve endocarditis.
Highlights the presentation of pulmonic valve endocarditis, an extremely rare infection, in a structurally normal heart.
Raises awareness for pulmonic valve endocarditis in normal hearts; case report leaves broader applicability and management open.
Pulmonic valve endocarditis is an extremely rare infection that shares epidemiologic, clinical, radiologic, microbiologic, and prognostic features with tricuspid valve endocarditis. We report a case of pulmonic valve infection on a structurally normal heart and review the English-language literature on this subject.
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Tariq et al. (2003) studied this question. Pulmonic valve endocarditis is an extremely rare infection that shares epidemiologic, clinical, radiologic, microbiologic, and prognostic features with tricuspid valve endocarditis.
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