Chest pain with ST segment elevation in a patient with prosthetic aortic valve infective endocarditis: a case report
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1 73-year-old British Caucasian man with previous tissue aortic valve replacement, infective endocarditis of…
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in-hospital
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Implication
STEMI from septic emboli in endocarditis warrants early surgical consideration over PCI; this case leaves optimal timing open.
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Population
1 73-year-old British Caucasian man with previous tissue aortic valve replacement, infective endocarditis of native mitral valve and prosthetic aortic valve, who developed STEMI.
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Intervention
Planned urgent surgical intervention and antibiotics (vancomycin, gentamicin, rifampicin)
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Outcome
Deathhard clinical
STEMI in the setting of infective endocarditis is a rare complication where conventional reperfusion strategies (PCI or thrombolysis) are high-risk, necessitating urgent specialist surgical consideration.
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Luther et al. (2011) studied this question.
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