title: Bacterial endocarditis in a transplanted heart.
abstract: A 51-year-old man presented with an abscess in his sternotomy scar 33 months after orthotopic heart transplantation. After surgical drainage he developed a febrile illness which led to renal and pulmonary failure. Twenty-three days after the illness began, blood cultures grew Staphylococcus aureus and he died 11 days later. Post-mortem examination revealed acute bacterial endocarditis with dense colonies of gram-positive cocci on the mitral valve leaflets and microabscesses in the myocardium of the transplanted heart.
authors.affiliation: Heart Transplant Research Unit, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, U.K.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Khoo
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Zebro
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: English
mesh_terms: D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000473:pathology*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged