نتایج جستجو برای: prosthetic valve
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Prosthetic valve endocarditis is a clinically severe pathology, which, unless timely treated, rapidly leads to the development of heart failure. The severity disease caused by fact that microorganisms and toxins bypass biological barriers constantly enter bloodstream, which subsequently results in sepsis with systemic embolism multiple organ conservative antibiotic therapy often ineffective due...
Heart valve surgery consists of valve replacement and repair. Both operations have been standard strategies for treating heart valve diseases worldwide, and are associated with excellent long-term clinical results. Hemolytic anemia after heart valve surgery, however, is a troublesome complication related to implanted prosthetic valves or rings.
A 55-year-old invasive/clinical cardiologist worked full time, exercised regularly, and was asymptomatic. Two weeks previously, he had new onset of angina on exertion. Echocardiography/Doppler and cardiac catheterization confirmed the clinical assessment of severe aortic stenosis with a valve area of 0.5 cm/m. The aortic valve was tricuspid; left ventricular ejection fraction was 0.60. Coronary...
The clinical, laboratory, and histopathological features of seven cases of Aspergillus fumigatus prosthetic valve endocarditis are presented. The exact nature of the lesion, a combination of infective fungal endocarditis and thrombosis on the prosthetic valve, is discussed and the difficulties in clinical diagnosis are emphasized. Helpful indications were sudden unexplained heart failure with t...
Rothia mucilaginosa is increasingly recognized as an emerging opportunistic pathogen associated with prosthetic device infections. Infective endocarditis is one of the most common clinical presentations. We report a case of R. mucilaginosa prosthetic valve endocarditis and review the literature of prosthetic device infections caused by this organism.
In recent years mitral valve repair has gained increasing acceptance as the preferred treatment for mitral insufficiency. Mitral valve repair has many advantages. The surgical risk is lower than prosthetic valve replacement. Improved preservation of left ventricular function due to maintenance of the papillary muscle - mitral annular continuity - has been demonstrated. Thromboembolism is rare a...
INTRODUCTION Candida lusitaniae was originally described as a human pathogen in 1979 and typically affects immunocompromised patients. CASE PRESENTATION We describe a case of prosthetic valve endocarditis with Candida lusitaniae in an immunocompetent 62-year-old woman following aortic valve replacement. In vitro testing demonstrated that our isolate was sensitive to amphotericin B, caspofungi...
BACKGROUND A Dutch online patient decision aid to support prosthetic heart valve selection was recently developed. A multicenter randomized controlled trial was conducted to assess whether use of the patient decision aid results in optimization of shared decision making in prosthetic heart valve selection. METHODS AND RESULTS In a 5-center randomized controlled trial, patients were allocated ...
Patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis have a very poor prognosis on medical treatment. In those with contraindications to surgery, percutaneous valve replacement has been proposed as an alternative. We report on physicians' initial experience in Spain with percutaneous aortic valve replacement. We analyzed inhospital and short-to-medium-term findings in four patients who underwent percutane...
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