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Pulmonary valve replacement with annulus enlargement for pulmonary valve infective endocarditis: A case report

Authors :
Kei Aizawa
Ryohei Horikoshi
Keisuke Shimizu
Satoshi Uesugi
Akira Sugaya
Soki Kurumisawa
Ryo Itagaki
Koji Kawahito
Source :
Clinical Case Reports, Vol 9, Iss 6, Pp n/a-n/a (2021)
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Wiley, 2021.

Abstract

Abstract Right‐sided infected endocarditis (IE) is very rare, especially PVIE accounts for 1.6%‐2.7% % of all IE cases. We successfully treated a IE of pulmonary valve patient with bioprosthetic valve and annulus enlargement with pericardial patch.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20500904
Volume :
9
Issue :
6
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Clinical Case Reports
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.6acc12aa60a24387bd33d05ba70e2202
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3742