Partial heart transplantation for destructive infective endocarditis
- Resource Type
- Original Paper
- Authors
- Mestres, Carlos A.; Quintana, Eduard
- Source
- Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 40(Suppl 1):155-159
- Subject
- Infective endocarditis
Bivalvular
Aortic abscess
Ventricular septal defect
Root replacement
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0970-9134
0973-7723
Infective endocarditis frequently spreads beyond the valve tissue, especially in the aortic location. Invasive endocarditis may lead to abscess formation or fistula, with substantial tissue loss. Here, the case of a 31-year-old male patient with destructive aortic and pulmonary valve endocarditis and a subaortic mural defect who underwent patch closure of the ventricular septal defect and aortic and pulmonary root replacement and right coronary artery bypass graft is presented. This is an uncommon condition and stress is placed on imaging of the technical aspects of the case.