PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Freidoon Ghazi
AU  - Richard Sterba
AU  - Douglas S. Moodie
AU  - Carl C. Gill
AU  - Norman B. Ratliff
TI  - Myxoma of the mitral valve associated with <em>Hemophilus parainfluenza</em> bacteremia
DP  - 1988 Sep 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 470--472
VI  - 55
IP  - 5
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/5/470.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/5/470.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1988 Sep 01; 55
AB  - A 17-year-old girl who presented with signs and symptoms of bacterial endocarditis did not respond clinically to antibiotic therapy. Cerebral embolic episodes subsequently occurred. Serial echocardiography disclosed an enlarging vegetation attached to the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve. During open heart surgery, the vegetation was removed, which on histological examination proved to be a myxoma covered by a layer of septic thrombus. Blood cultures obtained preoperatively eventually grew Hemophilus parainfluenza. Removal of the tumor, as well as mitral valve annuloplasty, resulted in complete cure.