Quardicuspid Aortic Valve as Risk Factor for Infective Endocarditis

Quardicuspid Aortic Valve as Risk Factor for Infective Endocarditis Yahya Islamoglu 1 , Cansu Tokat 2 , Sumeyra Uysal 3 1 Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, Diyarbakir, Turkey 2 Uludag University Faculty of Medicine, Bursa, Turkey 3 Duzce University Faculty of Medicine, Duzce, Turkey ABSTRACT Quardicuspid aortic valve, an infective endocarditis’s risk factor, has the property inborn aortic valve disease but disease development not up to enough understood. Infective endocarditis is together with 1, 4% of the cases. Aortic regurgitation may be seen together and transesophageal echocardiography is important for these patients because of diagnosis. Our case, a thirty nine years old woman, was asymptomatic quardicuspid aortic valve with aort valve regurgitation and we diagnosed via transesophageal echocardiography. We recommended antibiotic prophylaxis and annual follow to the patient. J Microbiol Infect Dis 2018; 8(1):30-32 Keywords: Infective endocarditis, quadricuspid aortic valve, aortic regurgitation