FRAGMENTATION HEMOLYSIS - AN UNUSUAL INDICATION FOR VALVE-REPLACEMENTIN NATIVE VALVE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS

Citation
Jd. Gradon et al., FRAGMENTATION HEMOLYSIS - AN UNUSUAL INDICATION FOR VALVE-REPLACEMENTIN NATIVE VALVE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS, Southern medical journal, 89(8), 1996, pp. 818-820
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
Journal title
ISSN journal
00384348
Volume
89
Issue
8
Year of publication
1996
Pages
818 - 820
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-4348(1996)89:8<818:FH-AUI>2.0.ZU;2-5
Abstract
Intravascular mechanical fragmentation of erythrocytes is an uncommon occurrence in native valve infective endocarditis, We report a case of fragmentation hemolysis in a patient with tricuspid valve endocarditi s due to Staphylococcus aureus. She received transfusion of multiple u nits of packed red blood cells and ultimately required surgical remova l of the affected valve to control the hemolytic process. We believe t his to be only the fifth such reported case and the first in which sur gical therapy was necessary to control the hemolytic process.