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ABSTRACT Warfarin remains the cornerstone of anticoagulation therapy following mechanical heart valve replacement. However, challenging anticoagulation responses, resistance to warfarin, and even more rarely to both warfarin and heparin pose significant clinical challenges and complicate management strategies.
Musawer Khan +9 more
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We report an insight from the PELS‐1– a multicentre, international registry focusing on postocardiotomy extracorporeal support use between 2000 and 2020. We focused on 24/2163 (1.1%) patients requiring V‐V ECMO after cardiac surgery. Mortality was high, with 21.7% of patients discharged alive and an overall 1‐year survival probability of 12.5 ...
Pasquale Nardelli +39 more
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Mycoplasma genitalium Endocarditis in Prosthetic Aortic Valve
We report a case of Mycoplasma genitalium endocarditis in a prosthetic heart valve of a woman who sought care in Switzerland for acute aortic valve dysfunction 3 years after valve replacement.
Lazarevic, Vladimir +9 more
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Achromobacter species endocarditis: A Case Report and Literature Review
Endocarditis due to Achromobacter species is a rare, yet serious, endovascular infection. Achromobacter species infective endocarditis is associated with underlying immunodeficiencies or prosthetic heart valves and devices. A case of prosthetic pulmonary
Catherine Derber +3 more
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ABSTRACT Tropheryma whipplei, traditionally linked to classic Whipple's disease with gastrointestinal involvement, is increasingly recognized as a cause of pneumonia. Reports of T. whipplei‐associated pneumonia progressing to respiratory failure with concurrent acute cardiac failure remain extremely rare.
Guisong Zhu +3 more
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Echocardiographic evidence of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae infective endocarditis. ABSTRACT Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a zoonotic, gram‐positive bacillus that is a virulent cause of infective endocarditis (IE) and incurs a high mortality rate. Its virulence is compounded by intrinsic resistance to common empirical agents including vancomycin and ...
Mahdid Azam +4 more
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ABSTRACT Background and Aims Valvular heart diseases (VHDs) significantly contribute to global cardiovascular mortality and morbidity, with a shift in epidemiology from rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in developing nations to degenerative valvular diseases in aging populations of industrialized countries.
Hasan Haghani Nejad +5 more
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Prosthetic mitral valve Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis
Aspergillus endocarditis is a fatal source of valvular infection with a near 100 % mortality rate if pharmacotherapy and valve-replacement surgery are not initiated swiftly after diagnosis.
Abdulrahman S. Museedi +4 more
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Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) complicates the clinical course of 1–6% of patients with prosthetic valves and it is one of the types of infective endocarditis with the worst prognosis.
Javier López, José A. San Román
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ABSTRACT Drug information centers (DICs) are institutions dedicated to providing independent and up‐to‐date information on medications and their usage to healthcare professionals. Here, we provide an update from the clinical‐pharmacological DIC of Hannover Medical School, covering the period from April 2022 to December 2024.
Johannes Heck +12 more
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