A Child with Acute Development of Mitral and Aortic Incompetence

viruses is by now a well-established entity, but endocarditis of viral origin, involving the mitral and aortic valves, is less often sus-pected. Such cases are usually labelled as rheumatic, despite lack of evidence of rheumatic origin. We here describe a boy with Coxsackie myocarditis, severe congestive failure, and mitral and rheumatic imcompetence. Case Report, Dilip, 10 years of age, was admitted to the KE