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- Title
Prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis complicated by COVID-19 and hemorrhage.
- Authors
Hussain, Azhar; Roberts, Neil; Oo, Aung
- Abstract
The novel coronavirus, now termed SARS-CoV-2, has caused a significant global impact in the space of 4 months. Almost all elective cardiac surgical operations have been postponed with only urgent and emergency operations being considered in order to maximise resource utilisation. We present a case of a 69-year old lady with an infected prosthetic aortic valve for consideration of urgent inpatient surgery. Despite being asymptomatic and testing negative initially for COVID-19 RT-PCR swab, further investigations with CT revealed suspicious findings. She subsequently tested positive on a repeat swab and unfortunately deteriorated rapidly with complications including gastro-intestinal and intracerebral haemorrhage.
- Subjects
COVID-19; AORTIC valve; SARS-CoV-2; ELECTIVE surgery; INFECTIVE endocarditis; CEREBRAL hemorrhage
- Publication
Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 6, p1348
- ISSN
0886-0440
- Publication type
case study
- DOI
10.1111/jocs.14643