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Open-heart surgery with mitral valve replacement and antibiotic therapy successfully treated a 45-year-old man with mitral stenosis and recurrent cerebral infarctions caused by a chronic artificial mitral ring infection.
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This case highlights that subclinical infection of an artificial mitral ring can present years later as progressive mitral stenosis and recurrent cerebral infarction due to pannus formation and vegetations.
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May warrant evaluation for occult prosthetic ring infection in late mitral stenosis with emboli; leaves open optimal diagnostic strategies.
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Namura et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Mitral stenosis, recurrent cerebral infarction, artificial mitral ring infection (n=1). Mitral valve replacement, tricuspid annuloplasty, and antibiotic therapy was evaluated. Open-heart surgery with mitral valve replacement and antibiotic therapy successfully treated a 45-year-old man with mitral stenosis and recurrent cerebral infarctions caused by a chronic artificial mitral ring infection.
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