title: Active infective endocarditis involving all four cardiac valves.
abstract: A case is presented of a 70-year-old man treated for 3 months for necrotizing pancreatitis with multiorgan failure. The autopsy revealed enterococcal endocarditis affecting all eleven valvular cusps of the four heart valves.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Charles University Faculty of Medicine and Faculty Hospital, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. steiner@lfhk.cuni.cz
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Steiner
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Nikolov
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Havel
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zapomelova
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006351:Heart Valves / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male