Q fever

Q fever, caused by <i>Coxiella burnetii</i>, is a bacterial zoonosis with a wide clinical spectrum that can be life-threatening and, in some cases, can become chronic.

Bicuspid aortic valve

The presence of an aortic valve with two instead of the normal three cusps (flaps). Bicuspid aortic valvue is a malformation of a commissure (small space between the attachment of each cusp to the aortic wall) and the adjacent parts of the two corresponding cusps forming a raphe (the fused area of the two underdeveloped cusps turning into a malformed commissure between both cusps; the raphe is a fibrous ridge that extends from the commissure to the free edge of the two underdeveloped, conjoint cusps).


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PMID (PMCID)
17693439
 MALE Middle Aged
Recurrent endocarditis of a bicuspid aortic valve due to Q fever.
Ngatchou W, Stefanidis C, Ramadan AS, De Canniere D.
Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2007;6(6):815-7.
Recurrent endocarditis of a bicuspid aortic valve due to Q fever.
9418357
 MALE Middle Aged
[Q fever endocarditis and bicuspid aortic valve].
Shovman O, George J, Shoenfeld Y.
Harefuah. 1997;133(7-8):281-3, 335.
[Q fever endocarditis and bicuspid aortic valve].
2608579
 MALE Adult
Extensive aortic valve ring abscess formation: a rare complication of Q fever endocarditis.
Fort S, Fraser AG, Fox KA.
Postgrad Med J. 1989;65(764):384-6.
We report the successful management and 2 year follow up of a young patient with Q fever endocarditis on a congenitally bicuspid aortic valve complicated by extensive abscess formation in the aortic valve ring and interventricular septum.