PMID: 2108502Apr 1, 1990Paper

Recurrent bacterial endocarditis in a man with tetralogy of Fallot: earliest recurrence on record

Southern Medical Journal
T O NoreuilD R Graham

Abstract

Enterococcal endocarditis occurred in a young man with tetralogy of Fallot who had just completed therapy for staphylococcal endocarditis. The patient had a transient reversal of flow through the ventricular septal defect during staphylococcal endocarditis with lung abscesses and had persistently elevated teichoic acid antibody titers during the second episode caused by enterococcus. Our review of the literature on recurrent infective endocarditis indicates that our case represents one of the shortest intervals of recurrence with a second organism.

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