Veronica Lorenz1, Karlien Carbonez2, Geoffroy de Beco1, Alain Poncelet1,*
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.17, No.2, pp. 187-192, 2022, DOI:10.32604/chd.2022.018350
Abstract Pulmonary valve implant is frequently necessary in children and adults with congenital heart disease. Infective endocarditis represents a rare but life-threatening complication after transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation. There are various treatments for native or prosthetic valve endocarditis. Surgical intervention, combined with intravenous antibiotic treatment, is of paramount importance, in case of concomitant mediastinal infection, in order to ensure the radical debridement of all infected tissue, avoiding any recurrent endocarditis. In this report, we describe a rare case of mediastinitis, associated with an infected endocarditis, occurring 8 months after Melody (Medtronic®, Minneapolis, USA) valve implant, successfully treated with the implantation of… More >
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