Key result
Redo mitral valve replacement with patch closure of a fistulous opening resulted in a good clinical outcome in a 29-year-old patient with severe infective endocarditis and periannular extension.
Population
1 patient, 29-year-old intravenous drug user with severe infective endocarditis and ring abscess who…
Design
Case_report
Authors
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May inform individualized surgical strategies in complex endocarditis; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Case Report (n=1)
This case highlights the classic TTE findings and the necessity for close follow-up in the perioperative period in patients undergoing surgery for periannular extension of infective endocarditis.
Ranjan et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Infective endocarditis with ring abscess (n=1). Redo mitral valve replacement with patch closure of fistulous opening was evaluated on Clinical outcome. Redo mitral valve replacement with patch closure of a fistulous opening resulted in a good clinical outcome in a 29-year-old patient with severe infective endocarditis and periannular extension.
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