AngioVac system for infective endocarditis : A new treatment for an old disease

Three different patients presented to our institution with right-sided infective endocarditis (IE). All three were found to have vegetation on the tricuspid valve. These patients were started on appropriate antimicrobial therapy according to their blood cultures sensitivities. Despite this management, the patients' clinical status did not improve solely on antimicrobials. Surgery was, therefore, indicated to remove the vegetations. Traditionally, the appropriate management would have been invasive surgery. However, these patients were subjected to a novel treatment in our institution for right-sided IE: percutaneous mechanical vegetation debulking with an AngioVac system. After this procedure, all three patients' clinical status improved drastically. This new less invasive approach seems to offer the same results as the traditional invasive surgery, with faster recovery time. More comparative studies are needed to confirm this idea.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Annals of cardiac anaesthesia - 26(2023), 1 vom: 27. Jan., Seite 105-108

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Poliwoda, Salomon D [VerfasserIn]
Durbach, Joshua R [VerfasserIn]
Castro, Alvaro [VerfasserIn]
Herman, Jared [VerfasserIn]
Caltagirone, Charles [VerfasserIn]
Kurup, Ajay [VerfasserIn]
Rosen, Gerald [VerfasserIn]
Tuda, Claudio [VerfasserIn]
La Pietra, Angelo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AngioVac
Case Reports
Endocarditis
IV drug use

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 02.02.2023

Date Revised 11.03.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.4103/aca.aca_156_21

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352329459