Key result
Pulmonary homograft replacement resolves Melody valve endocarditis, maintaining freedom from infection at 1 year.
Case Report (n=1)
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May support homograft replacement for rare Melody valve endocarditis; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
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Clusa et al. (2023) conducted a case report in Infective endocarditis of a pulmonary valve implant (n=1). Surgical replacement with pulmonary homograft was evaluated on Surgical resolution and freedom from infection. Surgical replacement with a pulmonary homograft successfully resolved Cardiobacterium infective endocarditis of a percutaneous Melody valve in a 20-year-old patient, maintaining her infection-free at 1 year.
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