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Challenging Anticoagulation With Warfarin and Heparin Following Mechanical Mitral Valve Replacement in a Patient With Infective Endocarditis: A Case Report Highlighting Diagnostic Difficulties

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Outcomes in Patients Requiring Veno‐Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation After Cardiac Surgery: An Analysis From the PELS‐1 Study

open access: yesArtificial Organs, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 745-754, May 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Mycoplasma genitalium Endocarditis in Prosthetic Aortic Valve

open access: yes, 2023
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
core   +1 more source

Achromobacter species endocarditis: A Case Report and Literature Review

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2011
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
doaj   +1 more source

Rare but Critical: Severe Tropheryma Whipplei Pneumonia‐Induced Cardiopulmonary Failure in a Young Immunocompromised Adult—A Case Report and Literature Review

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Destructive Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae Endocarditis Confirmed on Valve Tissue Culture After Persistent Blood Culture Negativity

open access: yesClinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 4, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Prevalence and Characteristics of Valvular Heart Disease: A Cross‐Sectional Study From Yazd Health Study

open access: yesHealth Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Prosthetic mitral valve Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis

open access: yes, 2020
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
core   +1 more source

Prosthetic valve endocarditis

open access: yes, 2018
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
core   +1 more source

Clinical‐Pharmacological Drug Information Center of Hannover Medical School: Update From a Tertiary Care University Hospital (2022–2024)

open access: yesPharmacology Research &Perspectives, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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