You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Miscellanea
Aortic valve endocarditis causing fatal myocardial infarction caused by ostial coronary artery obliteration
  1. M Schmitt,
  2. S Puri,
  3. N R Dalal
  1. matthschmitt@doctors.org.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2003.026534

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    A 43 year old man developed biventricular heart failure over a period of eight weeks following dental extraction. On admission he was found to have severe congestive hepatopathy with profound jaundice, pronounced ascites, and peripheral oedema. Auscultation of the heart revealed a 3/6 holosystolic and a 3/6 diastolic decrescendo murmur, both audible over all precordium. Transthoracic echocardiography (see …

    View Full Text