INFECTIVE MITRAL-VALVE ENDOCARDITIS AFTER PERCUTANEOUS TRANSVENOUS MITRAL COMMISSUROTOMY

Authors
MORIYAMA Y TOYOHIRA H SAIGENJI H SHIMOKAWA S TAIRA A
Citation
Y. Moriyama et al., INFECTIVE MITRAL-VALVE ENDOCARDITIS AFTER PERCUTANEOUS TRANSVENOUS MITRAL COMMISSUROTOMY, European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery, 9(2), 1995, pp. 111-112
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery → ACNP
ISSN journal
10107940
Volume
9
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
111 - 112
Database
ISI
SICI code
1010-7940(1995)9:2<111:IMEAPT>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
Infective mitral valve endocarditis developed in a 40-year-old female patient after a percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC). The echocardiogram demonstrated a vegetation in the anterior leadflet of the mitral valve and moderate aortic insufficiency. The patient un derwent replacement of the infected mitral and incompetent aortic valv es. Infective mitral valve endocarditis should be recognized as a pote ntially lethal complication after PTMC. The important measures to prev ent bacteremia during PTMC and the appropriate role of operation are d iscussed.