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- Title
Infective Endocarditis in a Hancock Bioprosthetic Heart Valve.
- Authors
Butany, Jagdish W.; Naseemuddin, Ather; Nair, Vidhya; Borger, Michael A.; Daniel, Loretta
- Abstract
Contemporary prosthetic heart valves (PHV) are a good mode of treatment of valvular heart disease. They last for an average of 5 to 10 years and bioprostheses fail due to the tissue degeneration. Infective endocarditis of the prosthetic valve is a relatively rare complication occurring in 0.5% to 1% of cases per year, and its late occurrence is even less common. Patients with PHV who undergo interventional or surgical procedures under adequate antibiotic coverage, infective endocarditis should not occur. We present a case of a 54-year-old woman who developed infective endocarditis on a porcine bioprosthesis, implanted 15 years earlier. The microorganism was Streptococcus viridans and the vegetations were surprisingly large and led to prosthesis obstruction. (J Card Surg 2005;20:389-392)
- Subjects
INFECTIVE endocarditis; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOCARDIUM diseases; PROSTHETIC heart valves; PROSTHETICS; CARDIAC surgery; CARDIOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2005, Vol 20, Issue 4, p389
- ISSN
0886-0440
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.200484.x