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Candida Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis. [PDF]

Cureus
Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) represents a significant clinical challenge in cardiology and cardiac surgery. Characterized by infection of a prosthetic heart valve, PVE can lead to severe morbidity and mortality, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnostic methods, treatment ...
Vicenty-Rivera SI, Rodriguez AP.
europepmc   +5 more sources

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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Pseudomonas stutzeri prosthetic valve endocarditis: A case report and review of the literature

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2019
We report a case of Pseudomonas stutzeri endocarditis in Lebanon. The patient had a recent history of prosthetic aortic valve replacement and presented to the emergency department with fever and chills.
Zeina Halabi, Michele Mocadie, Saeed El Zein, Souha S. Kanj   +3 more
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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
doaj   +2 more sources

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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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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Periodontitis and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: A critical appraisal

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract In spite of intensive research efforts driving spectacular advances in terms of prevention and treatments, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain a leading health burden, accounting for 32% of all deaths (World Health Organization. “Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs).” WHO, February 1, 2017, https://www.who.int/news‐room/fact‐sheets/detail ...
Maria Clotilde Carra, Hélène Rangé, Giuseppina Caligiuri, Philippe Bouchard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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