Pulmonary valve replacement with annulus enlargement for pulmonary valve infective endocarditis: A case report

Abstract

Abstract Right‐sided infected endocarditis (IE) is very rare, especially PVIE accounts for 1.6%‐2.7% % of all IE cases. We successfully treated a IE of pulmonary valve patient with bioprosthetic valve and annulus enlargement with pericardial patch.

Keywords

• annulus enlargement
• autologous pericardial patch
• bioprosthetic valve
• infective endocarditis
• pulmonary valve