Prosthetic valve endocarditis 7 months after transcatheter aortic valve implantation diagnosed with 3D TEE
HELLENIC JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY, cilt.57, sa.2, ss.119-123, 2016 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 57 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2016
- Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.hjc.2015.03.001
- Dergi Adı: HELLENIC JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.119-123
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was introduced as an alternative treatment for patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis for whom surgery would be high-risk. Prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis is a serious complication of surgical AVR (SAVR) with high morbidity and mortality. According to recent cases, post-TAVI prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) seems to occur very rarely. We present the case of a 75-year-old woman who underwent TAVI (Edwards Saphien XT) with an uneventful postoperative stay. She was diagnosed with endocarditis using three dimensional (3D) echocardiography on the TAVI device 7 months later and she subsequently underwent surgical aortic valve replacement. Little experience of the interpretation of transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and the clinical course and effectiveness of treatment strategies in post-TAVI endocarditis exists. We report a case of PVE in a TAVI patient which was diagnosed with three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (3DTEE). (C) 2016 Hellenic Cardiological Society. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V.