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Staphylococcal early-onset prosthetic valve endocarditis: a condition bound for surgery [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Early-onset prosthetic valve endocarditis (EO-PVE) is linked to poor in-hospital outcomes. Staphylococcus spp. poses a significant concern due to its higher mortality rates compared to other major infectious agents.
Antonio de Santis, Eduardo Cukierkorn, Flavio Tarasoutchi, Roney Orismar Sampaio, Tshimbalanga Merite, Milena R. Paixão, Carlos Manuel A. Brandão, Elinthon T. Veronese, Francisco Monteiro de Almeida Magalhães, Tarso A. D. Accorsi, Guilherme S. Spina, Tania Mara Varejão Strabelli, Rinaldo Focaccia Siciliano   +12 more
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Case Report: Fatal prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Staphylococcus lugdunensis—a wolf in coagulase-negative clothing [PDF]

Frontiers in Medicine
Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a rare but highly virulent coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) capable of causing aggressive native and prosthetic valve endocarditis. Unlike other CoNS, it resembles S.
Raj Patel, Ekta Patel, Riddhi Patel
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Candida Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis. [PDF]

Cureus
Vicenty-Rivera SI, Rodriguez AP.
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Incidence of Bacterial Endocarditis after Heart Valves Replacement Surgery in Mashhad (from 2012 to 2016) [PDF]

Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2022
Introduction: Bacterial endocarditis is one of the high mortality complications after the valve surgery. Despite the medical advancements, the mortality rate of Bacterial Endocarditis has not been decreased.
Atefeh Ghorbanzadeh, Gholamreza Safarpoor, Hamid Hoseinikhah, Omid Javdanfar, Soroush Mir, Zahra Moeinipour, Aliasghar Moeinipour   +6 more
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Prosthetic valve endocarditis secondary to Tropheryma whipplei in a patient with chronic polyarthritis

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2023
Background Whipple’s disease is a chronic multisystemic infectious disease that rarely presents as culture-negative endocarditis. Most patients reported with Tropheryma whipplei endocarditis involve a native valve and few describe prosthetic valve ...
Mauricio J. Kahn, David M. Ennis, Dennis G. Delgado   +2 more
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Transcatheter aortic valve-in-surgical aortic valve for a patient with repeated healed endocarditis: a case report

Surgical Case Reports, 2023
Background Transcatheter valve replacement is contraindicated in patients with active infective endocarditis. However, few reports suggest that it could be beneficial for high-risk surgical patients with healed infective endocarditis.
Yusuke Takei, Ryujiro Suzuki, Ikuko Shibasaki, Michiaki Tokura, Takahisa Nasuno, Hiroko Yazawa, Mayo Wada, Fumiya Saito, Shigeru Toyoda, Hirotugu Fukuda   +9 more
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Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2005
Prosthetic valve endocarditis is a catastrophic complication of cardiac valve replacement, associated with high mortality rates. Medical treatment is effective in a few instances of endocarditis involving the leaflets alone in bioprostheses. However, accurate diagnosis, better myocardial protection, and improved surgical strategies have led to better ...
Mahesh, B, Angelini, G, Caputo, M, Jin, X, Bryan, A   +4 more
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Findings of prosthetic valve endocarditis in the balloon-expandable trans-catheter aortic valve: review of the literature and tips of management

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2021
Prosthetic valve endocarditis after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is a rare complication associated with a high mortality rate. Nonetheless, the rapid expansion of TAVI in recent years has proportionally increased the number of patients ...
Domenico Calcaterra, Kevin Harris, Mario Goessl, Gopika Dasari, Navneet Kaur, Ivan Chavez   +5 more
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Twenty-Year Experience with Surgery for Native and Prosthetic Mitral Valve Endocarditis

Medicina, 2023
Background and Objectives: To evaluate the early and long-term results of surgical treatment of isolated mitral native and prosthetic valve infective endocarditis.
Antonella Galeone, Jacopo Gardellini, Venanzio Di Nicola, Fabiola Perrone, Vincenzo Boschetti, Renato Di Gaetano, Francesco Onorati, Giovanni Battista Luciani   +7 more
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Advances in medicine and positive natural selection: Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to biofilm producer Micrococcus luteus

IDCases, 2020
Over the past years there has been a considerable increase in the use of aortic bioprostheses for treating aortic valve disease. With the increasing use of implanted medical devices, the incidence of prosthetic valve endocarditis has also increased. This
Guillermo Rodriguez-Nava, Abdelnasir Mohamed, Maria Adriana Yanez-Bello, Daniela Patricia Trelles-Garcia   +3 more
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