Clinical Case Reports (May 2021)

Successful surgical treatment approach for mitral valve vegetation of infective endocarditis after severe soft tissue infection with mediastinitis

  • Kenichiro Uchida,
  • Yosuke Takahashi,
  • Toshihiko Shibata,
  • Yasumitsu Mizobata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4209
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 5
pp. n/a – n/a

Abstract

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Abstract Transesophageal echocardiography is mandatory if you do suspect infective endocarditis. By approaching via a small right thoracotomy, vegetectomy and mitral valvuloplasty following severe mediastinitis were successfully accomplished without any complications.

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