TY - JOUR
T1 - Treatment of prosthetic valve endocarditis by aortic valve neocuspidization using bovine pericardium
AU - Iida, Yasunori
AU - Shimura, Kazuma
AU - Akiyama, Sho
AU - Sawa, Shigeharu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - A 78-year-old man who had undergone aortic valve and ascending aorta replacements presented with fever and was referred to our hospital. Blood culture revealed Gram-positive cocci, thus antibiotic therapy was started. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed fresh cerebral infarction without cerebral haemorrhage or mycotic aneurysm. Transoesophageal echocardiogram revealed a vegetation that was attached to the right coronary cusp. The patient underwent successful aortic valve neocuspidization using glutaraldehyde-treated bovine pericardium. The postoperative course was uneventful with intravenous antibiotics administered for 6 weeks after confirming a negative blood culture, and no cardiac events occurred on follow-up by transthoracic echocardiogram 14 months postoperatively.
AB - A 78-year-old man who had undergone aortic valve and ascending aorta replacements presented with fever and was referred to our hospital. Blood culture revealed Gram-positive cocci, thus antibiotic therapy was started. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed fresh cerebral infarction without cerebral haemorrhage or mycotic aneurysm. Transoesophageal echocardiogram revealed a vegetation that was attached to the right coronary cusp. The patient underwent successful aortic valve neocuspidization using glutaraldehyde-treated bovine pericardium. The postoperative course was uneventful with intravenous antibiotics administered for 6 weeks after confirming a negative blood culture, and no cardiac events occurred on follow-up by transthoracic echocardiogram 14 months postoperatively.
KW - Aortic valve neocuspidization
KW - Bovine pericardium
KW - Prosthetic valve endocarditis
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U2 - 10.1093/ejcts/ezx380
DO - 10.1093/ejcts/ezx380
M3 - Article
C2 - 29096006
AN - SCOPUS:85044852403
VL - 53
SP - 877
EP - 878
JO - European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
JF - European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery
SN - 1010-7940
IS - 4
ER -