Non-Bacterial Thrombotic (Marantic) Endocarditis of the Aortic Valve: A Rare Cause of STEMI Revealing a Polycythemia

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• Page 1 of 5 • Özse et al. Int J Clin Cardiol 2020, 7:169 Citation: Özse J, Knur R, Beckerath NV (2020) Non-Bacterial Thrombotic (Marantic) Endocarditis of the Aortic Valve: A Rare Cause of STEMI Revealing a Polycythemia. Int J Clin Cardiol 7:169. doi. org/10.23937/2378-2951/1410169 Accepted: March 21, 2020; Published: March 24, 2020 Copyright: © 2020 Özse J, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. drome, JAK-2 mutation was negative, blood level of erythropoietin was normal. His haematologist diagnosed most likely a reactive polyglobulie and he was treated symptomatic with phlebotomy. Splenectomy was done in 1984 after traffic accident.