Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Detection of an Abscess Associated with Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: A Case Report
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https://doi.org/10.1532/HSF98.20061210Abstract
Propionibacterium acnes is an organism frequently isolated in cultures and often dismissed as a contaminant. A patient with a febrile illness and prosthetic aortic valve was suspected of having infectious endocarditis. Magnetic resonance imaging was useful in defining a paravalvular abscess associated with prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Propionibacterium acnes that was then successfully surgically repaired.References
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