TY - JOUR
T1 - Mural vegetations at the site of endocardial trauma in infective endocarditis complicating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis
AU - LeJemtel, Thierry H.
AU - Factor, Stephen M.
AU - Koenigsberg, Mordecai
AU - O'Reilly, Michael
AU - Frater, Robert
AU - Sonnenblick, Edmund H.
N1 - Funding Information:
From the Departments of Medicine, Pathology, Radiology and Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris.Park Avenue, Bronx, New York. Manuscript received February 13. 1979; revised manuscript received March 27, 1979, accepted April 2, 1979. l Supported in partby Brant f-M_0 707 1 from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Address for reprints: Thier~ t-l. LeJemtel, MD, Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Forch-heimer Building, Room 715, Bronx, New York 10461.
PY - 1979/9
Y1 - 1979/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1016/0002-9149(79)90414-4
DO - 10.1016/0002-9149(79)90414-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 573057
AN - SCOPUS:0018733955
SN - 0002-9149
VL - 44
SP - 569
EP - 574
JO - The American Journal of Cardiology
JF - The American Journal of Cardiology
IS - 3
ER -