Why the study?
Prosthetic valve endocarditis remains a devastating infection with challenging diagnosis and management despite advances in diagnostics and interventions.
Case Report (n=1)
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Multimodality imaging is crucial for the early detection of paravalvular complications in prosthetic valve endocarditis.
May support multimodality imaging for paravalvular complications in prosthetic valve endocarditis; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
Prosthetic valve endocarditis is a devastating infection with a challenging diagnosis and management. Despite advances in its diagnostic modalities, medical, and surgical interventions, prosthetic valve endocarditis still carries high morbidity and mortality rates. Here, we report a case of prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis that progressed to involve the paravalvular space and the importance of multimodality cardiac imaging in the early detection of paravalvular complications.
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Jawad et al. (2023) conducted a case report in Prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis (n=1). Transesophageal echocardiography and surgical aortic valve replacement was evaluated on Detection of paravalvular complications and clinical recovery.
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