Tricuspid endocarditis was diagnosed in a sixty-four-year-old patient with Chagas' disease who had a permanent cardiac pacemaker and whose generator had been replaced five months before an infection in the pocket. The pacing system was replaced by an epicardial one and the patient received antibiotics with good results.
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