Urgent surgical management can be a successful treatment strategy for aggressive right-sided infective endocarditis complicated by recurrent pulmonary embolism in chronic hemodialysis patients.
May support urgent surgery in select right-sided IE with recurrent PE; hypothesis-generating for hemodialysis patients.
Right-sided infective endocarditis is rare. In this article, we presented successful urgent surgical management of aggressive tricuspid valve infective endocarditis with recurrent pulmonary embolism in a chronic hemodialysis patient.
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