Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Giuseppe Ambrosio

Publications

• Case Report
  Giant Infective Endocarditis of Native Aortic Valve with Secondary Mitral Kissing Vegetation
  Author(s): Andrea Cardona, Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Ketty Savino, Stefano Pasquino and Giuseppe AmbrosioAndrea Cardona, Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Ketty Savino, Stefano Pasquino and Giuseppe Ambrosio
  
  Secondary involvement of the mitral valve is well documented in primary aortic valve endocarditis. An important causative mechanism, involving both left-sided valves, is ‘mitral kissing vegetation’. This results from large aortic vegetations prolapsing into the left ventricular outflow tract and “kissing” with the ventricular surface of the anterior mitral leaflet thus causing secondary infection. .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.1000425

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