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A case of a 47-year-old male admitted to our department due to acute myocardial infarction, treated effectively with primary angioplasty, is presented. Three weeks earlier the patient was admitted to another hospital with a suspicion of infective endocarditis. Echocardiography performed in our department after the patient recovered from acute phase of MI revealed the presence of mitral valve abscess which caused valve perforation. The patient was transferred to another institution for cardiac surgery.
Kardiol Pol 2003 Nov
PMID:[Infective endocarditis complicated by abscess and perforation of mitral valve--a case report]. 1466 5

The aim of this study was to establish the indications to use of pulmonary autograft in the treatment of aortic valve disease in the adolescents and adults; early and mid-term an evaluation of autograft's function and function of left ventricle after Ross operation. In this procedure the patient's own pulmonary valve is removed together with the main trunk of the pulmonary artery and used to replace the aortic valve. Pulmonary homograft is used to reconstruction of right ventricular outflow tract. Between February 1994 and march 2001 in 1st Cardiac Surgery Department in 43 patients over 14 years of age Ross operation have performed. Mean age was 24.9 years. Indications for operation were predominant aortic stenosis in 29 patients, aortic incompetence in 7 patients, and complex aortic valve disease in 7 patients. Hospital mortality was 4.6%. In mid-term observation 41 patients left. All survivors remained in New York Heart Association functional class I and were free of complications and medications. In the all patients autograft's valve have functioned excellent (without or small regurgitation). Echocardiographic parameters of left ventricular function improved in the all patients. The indications to pulmonary autograft insertion in the adolescents and adults are small aortic ring, infective endocarditis and contraindications to anticoagulants using. The early and mid-term results confirm a high efficacy Ross operation in this age's group with low mortality. It completely relieves the abnormal loading conditions of the left ventricle, resulting in a complete recovery of left ventricular function.
Pol Merkur Lekarski 2003 Nov
PMID:[Early and mid-term evaluation of the pulmonary autograft function in adolescents and adults]. 1496 30

A case of a 75-year-old male with a history of aortic valve disease hospitalised due to pyrexia of unknown origin is reported. Initially the patient was diagnosed with infective endocarditis due to persistent pyrexia, history of valve disease, single positive blood culture and echocardiographic scan suggesting infective endocarditis. Treatment with two strong antibiotics did not bring expected amelioration. Patient's hemodynamic status remained unchanged. After several weeks of hospitalization X-ray scan revealed involved hilar lymph nodes, which was confirmed by CT scan of the chest. The patient was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. He died three months after initiation of chemotherapy.
Kardiol Pol 2004 Jan
PMID:[Hodgkin's disease as a cause of pyrexia in a patient with valvular heart disease and suspicion of infective endocarditis--a case report]. 1500 32

We present two patients with aortic valve disease who developed acute infective endocarditis. In both patients the disease started with infection of the upper respiratory tract. The patients were treated with antibiotics due to pneumonia. The diagnosis of infective endocarditis was established 4 months and 9 weeks after the onset of infection. The first patient died whereas the second underwent successful aortic valve replacement.
Kardiol Pol 2004 Apr
PMID:[Infective endocarditis--still a great challenge. Two case reports]. 1522 87

A case of a 63-year-old female with prosthetic mitral and aortic valves is described. The long-term post-operative period was complicated by infective endocarditis, persistent atrial fibrillation requiring pacemaker implantation and total a-v node ablation as well as ischaemic stroke which occurred one year before present hospitalisation. This time the patient was admitted to the hospital due to progressive heart failure. Transesophageal echocardiography showed a cyclic intermittent opening of both prosthetic valves full opening was present during every second cardiac cycle. The same phenomenon was documented using plethysmographic recording of a pulse wave from a finger. The patient underwent prosthetic valve replacement. Intraoperatively, a fibrous tissue ingrowth was detected.
Kardiol Pol 2004 Jul
PMID:[Plethysmographic assessment of pulse wave may be helpful in the detection of prosthetic valve dysfunction--a case report]. 1533 19

Infective endocarditis is the most common condition predisposing a patient to splenic abscess. We report the case of man aged 65 who was admitted to the Internal Medicine Department to diagnose the fever of unknown origin. The fever lasted longer than one year. Clinical status and executed diagnostics, among others: echocardiography, blood cultures, abdominal ultrasonography, abdominal computed tomography allowed to give the diagnosis splenic abscess caused by Acinetobacter Baumanii in the course of infective endocarditis. Patient was treated by splenectomy and antibiotics. As a result of the treatment normalization of temperature and recovery was obtained.
Pol Arch Med Wewn 2004 Nov
PMID:[Splenic abscess in the course of infective endocarditis--report of a case]. 1577 18

A case of a 5-year-old girl with severe dysfunction of aortic valve in Kawasaki disease coexisting with endocarditis, is described. The role of Ross operation in the treatment of this condition is discussed. The 18-months follow-up showed good function of aortic valve and "Contegra" conduit (bovine jugular vein), but long-term follow-up of patients with "Contegra" conduit remains unknown. In conclusion, a Ross operation using "Contegra" conduit in pulmonary position could be effective method in the treatment of dysfunction of aortic valve in Kawasaki disease coexisting with endocarditis in children.
Kardiol Pol 2005 Jul
PMID:[Ross operation using "contegra" conduit in a 5 year old girl with severe aortic valve insufficiency in Kawasaki disease coexisting with infective endocarditis--a case report]. 1613 34

A case of 47-year old woman operated on because of a chronic left ventricular false aneurysm caused by Staphylococcus aureus septicemia and endocarditis 8-years earlier is described. After septicemia was cured, clinical status improved so markedly that the patient refused to undergo recommended operation until onset of heart failure (NYHA III). She was operated on from the median sternotomy with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass. After pericardial adhesions were dissected free, the large left ventricular false aneurysm with severely calcified wall was found. The aneurysm was excised completely and its orifice closed with non-absorbable monofilament 3-0 suture. Postoperative course was complicated by epileptic attack accompanied by loss of consciousness and left hemiplegia on 4th day after surgery. Neurological symptoms regressed within 48 hours and on 12th postoperative day she was discharged from a hospital in a good clinical status.
Pol Merkur Lekarski 2005 Jul
PMID:[Chronic left ventricular pseudoaneurysm caused by Staphylococcus aureus septicemia accompanied by endocarditis]. 1619 30

A case of a 59 year old male with infective endocarditis is presented. Antibiotic therapy seemed effective, however, inflammation laboratory parameters increased two weeks after clinical improvement and body temperature normalisation. Subsequent extensive laboratory investigations revealed multiple myeloma. The patient underwent successful aortic valve replacement and received pharmacological therapy for multiple myeloma. Difficulties in diagnosing and treatment of patients with infective endocarditis who have other concomitant diseases, are discussed.
Kardiol Pol 2005 Oct
PMID:[Infective endocarditis in a patient with multiple myeloma. A case report]. 1627 84

Aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva is a rare congenital heart disease. It constitutes about 0.14%-1.5% of congenital heart surgery cases. Aneurysm of the sinus of Valsalva can be asymptomatic for many years. Only rupture of the sinus of Valsalva aneurysm leads to hemodynamic disturbances which in turn causes rapid deterioration of patient clinical condition. Some of the congenital heart diseases can be complicated by of infective endocarditis. This case report concerns the rupture of the sinus of Valsalva aneurysm in a 45 year old woman, which caused infective endocarditis on the tricuspid valve, which has been initially diagnosed as a complication of congenital heart disease in the form of the intraventricular defect.
Kardiol Pol 2006 Jan
PMID:[Rupture of the sinus of Valsalva aneurysm complicated by infective endocarditis -- diagnosis difficulties]. 1644 38


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