Patients who underwent mitral valve replacement, but not repair, had a higher risk for infective endocarditis than those at a moderate risk for the disease, a Danish study shows.

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Multiple-valve infective endocarditis in a patient with known but untreated ventricular septal defect is described in this case study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Citrobacter koseri is a rare cause of infective endocarditis (IE), especially in immunocompetent individuals. We present a case of acute IE of the native mitral valve caused by C ...

Risk for symptomatic embolism can be predicted via echocardiographic vegetation features in patients with infective endocarditis.

He also performs structural heart procedures – transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and left atrial appendage occlusion (Watchman), as well as the AngioVac procedure for removal of tricuspid ...

Background: The AngioVac mechanical aspiration system has recently emerged in the literature for its use in the percutaneous debulking of intracardiac vegetations and masses. However, description of ...

Case presentation: We describe the case of a 10-year-old patient with a history of aortic vegetation resection with aortic valve repair for Staphylococcus Aureus infective endocarditis of the aortic ...

She subsequently developed a fungal tricuspid valve endocarditis, leading to the formation of vegetation that extended into the superior vena cava. The mass measured 15 × 3 cm upon surgical removal.

A workforce on the surgical management of tricuspid endocarditis in patients who inject drugs cautioned against relying on vegetation size and microbiology as criteria for surgery in these ...