Abstract
e v e t fi t a m w e m e i v 4 A59-YEAR-OLD woman with a bioprosthetic aortic valve was referred to the authors’ heart and vascular institute for rosthetic valve endocarditis with blood cultures positive for ethicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. The transesophaeal echocardiogram (TEE) showed mobile densities on the ortic and ventricular surfaces of the Carpentier-Edwards aortic alve leaflets. The patient was scheduled for an urgent valve eplacement with an aortic valve homograft. After an un-
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