Carbajal PP, Chávez TNC, Lizardi CJ

Language: Spanish
References: 9
Page: 249-251
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ABSTRACT

Infective endocarditis it’s associated with cardiac and skin disturbances, it’s consequences are severe, mainly those related with valve lesion and thrombus that originate severe disturbances to very important organs, in this issue we present a representative case and we discuss about this disease.

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