[Endocarditis due to staphylococcus aureus during cardiomyopathy].

In a patient suffering from obstructive cardiomyopathy (IHSS), the onset of septicaemia due to staphylococus aureus was accompanied: 1. by the appearance of massive mitral incompetence and of cardiac failure; 2. by a marked reduction in the left intra-ventricular pressure gradient; 3.