Moorjani Narain, Saad Rasheed, Gallagher Patrick, Livesey Steven
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK.
J Card Surg. 2014 Mar;29(2):213-5. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12241. Epub 2013 Oct 24.
A 36-year-old intravenous drug abuser presented with an aortic root abscess and partial rupture of the posteromedial papillary muscle. Following aortic and mitral valve replacement, histological and microbiological analysis of the papillary muscle demonstrated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus infection.