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Case Reports
. 1996 Oct;76(4):370-1.
doi: 10.1136/hrt.76.4.370.

Bacterial endocarditis involving a subaortic membrane

D Pentousis  1 , J P Cooper, A P Rae
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Case Reports

Bacterial endocarditis involving a subaortic membrane

D Pentousis et al. Heart. 1996 Oct.

Abstract

A subaortic membrane predisposes to bacterial endocarditis usually affecting the aortic valve and left ventricular outflow tract. Endocarditis involving the subaortic membrane itself has been described twice only; once at operation and once at postmortem. The case of a man with vegetations involving a subaortic membrane that were detected preoperatively and the echocardiographic appearances of these findings are reported.

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