@article{3139483,
    title = "Valve replacement for Brucella endocarditis: Two case reports",
    author = "Koumallos, Nikolaos and Paschalis, Andreas and Antoniades, Charalambos and and Tousoulis, Dimitris and Simpsiris, Panagiotis and Tolios, Ioannis and and Stefanadis, Christodoulos and Leonidas, Dimitrios",
    journal = "International Journal of Cardiology",
    year = "2008",
    volume = "127",
    number = "2",
    pages = "E83-E85",
    publisher = "Elsevier Ireland Ltd",
    issn = "0167-5273",
    doi = "10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.04.081",
    keywords = "Brucella; endocarditis; aortic valve",
    abstract = "We report two cases of successful treatment of Brucella endocarditis.
Both of them were treated with antibiotics and aortic valve replacement
after Brucellosis was diagnosed. In one of these cases emergency
operation was required. Our observations suggest that a combined
surgical and medical treatment is the best option for the management of
this disease. B. endocarditis should be operated after improvement of
clinical status but emergency cardiac surgery may be required if heart
failure develops. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved."
}