TY  - EJOU
AU  - Mokryk, Igor 
AU  - Demyanchuk, Vitaly 
AU  - Vashkeba, Volodymyr 
AU  - Nechay, Ilya 
AU  - Todurov, Borys 

TI  - Neocuspidization of the Pulmonary Valve with Autologous Pericardium in the Adult Patient with Ventricular Septal Defect and Infective Endocarditis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
T2  - Structural and Congenital Heart Disease

PY  - 2022
VL  - 17
IS  - 6
SN  - 3071-1738

AB  - Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the risk factors for developing infective endocarditis (IE). Right-sided IE occurs in 5%–10% of endocarditis cases, and pulmonary valve (PV) is involved in less than 2% of such patients. Literature data are few, and optimal treatment methods, indications for surgery, and types of operative techniques are still under debate. We present an adult patient with a rare combination of the ventricular septal defect (VSD) and PV IE who underwent surgical treatment. Neocuspidization with autologous pericardium was utilized for the reconstruction of his PV. We discuss details of this novel surgical technique.
KW  - Infective endocarditis; pulmonary valve neocuspidization; ozaki technique; congenital heart disease

DO  - 10.32604/chd.2022.025096