title: Acquired ventricular septal defect and tricuspid valve disruption as a complication of infective endocarditis of the aortic valve.
abstract: Ventricular septal defect is a rare complication of infective endocarditis. This is a case report of a 48-year-old man with chronic alcoholism without known previous heart disease who developed a ventricular septal defect and a tricuspid valve disruption in the course of a fatal infective endocarditis of the aortic valve.
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications*; D006341:Heart Rupture / Q000209:etiology*; D006346:Heart Septum; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014261:Tricuspid Valve