Doctors aren’t sure if St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz has endocarditis. “Even though doctors had told Mike Martz they believed he was suffering from endocarditis, an inflammation of a heart valve caused by a bacterial infection, an exact diagnosis had been elusive. That’s why a specialist finally told Martz on Monday that he needed to check into the hospital for at least four days and to take a leave of absence.”
Possibilities include culture-negative endocarditis, or early endocarditis where vegetations are not able to be seen via transesophageal echocardiogram.
