title: Personal experience.
abstract: Three attacks of infective endocarditis with consequent emergency surgery to the aortic and mitral valves leave their mark. These are the impressions of a physician at the receiving end of his medical environment, an experience which entailed 4 periods of hospitalisation in 2 hospitals.
mesh_terms: D003289:Convalescence; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000451:nursing / Q000601:surgery*; D005502:Food; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009732:Nursing Care; D010005:Osteoarthropathy, Secondary Hypertrophic / Q000175:diagnosis; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D011182:Postoperative Care; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000628:therapy; D011845:Radio; D012017:Referral and Consultation