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Concomitant Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: Report of a Case

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A rare case of native valve endocarditis affecting both the normal mitral and tricuspid valves is presented. A 25-year-old woman with an acute ischemic stroke was found to have vegetation secondary to infective endocarditis as the embolic source. One month after the onset of embolic cerebrovascular intervention, a valve repair with the implantation of artificial chordae, sliding commissuroplasty, and ring annuloplasty resulted in a complete recovery.

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  1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Hokkaido Prefectural Kushiro Hospital, Kushiro, Japan

    Yoshikazu Hachiro, Hideyuki Harada, Toshio Baba, Yukiko Honma & Masahiro Miyajima

  2. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, S 1, W 16, Chuo-ku, Sapporo, 060-8543, Japan

    Yoshikazu Hachiro & Tomio Abe

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Hachiro, Y., Harada, H., Baba, T. et al. Concomitant Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: Report of a Case. Surg Today 34, 695–697 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-004-2781-x

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