TY - JOUR AB - cardiac is and mechanisms involv¬ output maintained; (2) adaptive ing renal function are to maintain normal cardiac out¬ necessary in with essential put patients hypertension. AM J CARDIOLOGY-NEW YORK AM J MEDICINE-UEW YORK Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis of Pneumonia in Diagnosis Cytomegalovirus Hosts Compromised E. N. ARNETT and W. C. Rm National Insti¬ ROBERTS (Bldg 10A, 3E-30, tutes of MD Am J Cardiol 38:281-292 Health, Bethesda, 20014) (Sept) 1976 P. S. ABDALLAH al C. Div of Infectious et (T. MERIGAN, Stan¬ Diseases, ford Univ Medical CA Center, Stanford, Am J Med 61:326-332 94305) (Sept) Clinical and features at morphologic are described in necropsy 22 patients with endocarditis involving rigid-framed prosthetic valves: aortic in 15 and mitral in seven. The interval from patients Sixteen with infection are cytomegalovirus patients pulmonary valve to onset of of valve replacement prosthetic endo¬ described. In 11 the was made antemortem symptoms diagnosis by lung aspi¬ carditis was less than two months in eight patients and rate or and in five the at longer diagnosis was made biopsy, postmortem than two most months in 14 The examination and patients. frequent infecting orga¬ by typical lung viral cul¬ histologie positive lung nism was In each of the TI - Selected Abstracts JF - JAMA DO - 10.1001/jama.1976.03270260058042 DA - 1976-12-20 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/selected-abstracts-ucRNdK9qDG SP - 2910 EP - 2917 VL - 236 IS - 25 DP - DeepDyve ER -