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Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg · Sep 2010
Case ReportsTransapical aortic valve prosthetic endocarditis.
- Manuel Carnero-Alcázar, Luis Carlos Maroto Castellanos, Javier Cobiella Carnicer, and José Enrique Rodríguez Hernández.
- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain. manuelcarneroalcazar@hotmail.es
- Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg. 2010 Sep 1;11(3):252-3.
AbstractAn 83-year-old patient underwent a transapical aortic valve implantation at our institution. Four months later, she was readmitted to our institution because of fever and heart failure. A prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis was diagnosed. Because of the high surgical risk, surgery was refused and the patient died shortly after the diagnosis. We briefly discuss the implications of this finding in the prevention of infective endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation.
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