Endocarditis and Inflammatory Diseases
This week on The Beat, CTSNet Editor-in-Chief Joel Dunning discusses the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed decision memo regarding the national coverage analysis for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). He outlines crucial deadlines,...
This video presents a Ross procedure with internal and external reduction annuloplasty using autologous tissue rings. The patient was a 41-year-old previously healthy male who presented after a syncopal episode....
In this article, the authors report early and long-term outcomes of cryopreserved aortic homografts for complex native and prosthetic aortic valve or root infective endocarditis in the EUropean REgistry of...
Tricuspid valve endocarditis with extensive leaflet destruction presents a major surgical challenge, particularly when durable valve repair is no longer feasible and conventional prosthetic valve replacement may be undesirable. In...
In this retrospective study, the authors analyzed outcomes in 245 patients with left-sided infective endocarditis (IE) and noninfected cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) who underwent cardiac surgery, using data from...
This review article aims to examine the surgical approach to patients with failed mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (M-TEER), focusing on operative challenges, decision-making, and contemporary outcome data. Technical considerations, including...
In this study, the authors investigate the clinical presentation, microbiological profile, and outcomes of infective endocarditis in octogenarians. This multicenter retrospective analysis, utilizing data from the CAMPAIGN Registry, includes 4,917...
This study analyzed mechanisms of repair failure after mitral valve repair using chordal replacement and annuloplasty for degenerative mitral regurgitation. Between 2003 and 2010, 344 patients underwent mitral valve repair...
Infective endocarditis (IE) remains one of the most challenging diseases of modern times. It is associated with high mortality and morbidity despite significant improvements in diagnostic and surgical skills, and...
This patient had a severely calcified valve which then became infected with endocarditis with abscess cavities under the left main coronary artery and right coronary artery. To begin the procedure,...
Some patients with infective endocarditis receive exclusively conservative antibiotic treatment due to their comorbidities and high operative risk, despite fulfilling criteria for surgical therapy. Hence, this study aimed to compare...
The classic cone repair was defined by Da Silva based on the Carpentier experience for tricuspid valve repair in Ebstein anomaly (1). This operation mainly consists of separating the tricuspid...
Overall, 4,365 patients were diagnosed and operated on for infective endocarditis (IE) from 2000 to 2021. Long-term survival was significantly higher among patients receiving a mechanical prosthesis than those receiving...





