“…Sixteen cases have been described in the antibiotic era in French, English, or Spanish language [1–13]. Predisposing conditions were found frequently, which included intravenous drug use in 6 cases [4, 7, 9–11], prior native valve disease in 4 cases ([5, 9], present case), and prosthetic valve in 1 case [3]. Endocarditis was located on the tricuspid valve in 4 of the 5 intravenous drug users, and was complicated with pulmonary embolisms in all of them [7, 9, 11].…”