This video presents a rare Gerbode defect secondary to aortic and tricuspid valve endocarditis, along with its surgical management using sliding tricuspid valve annuloplasty.
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Endocarditis
August 6, 2018
March 23, 2018
Patient Care
A teen in Chicago, Illinois, USA, awaiting a heart transplant received the news that a heart was available from his pediatric cardiologist, who dressed up as Chewbacca from Star Wars just for the occasion.
December 15, 2017
Patient Care
A baby in the UK has surgery to put her ectopic heart back inside her chest.
June 5, 2017
In this video, the authors demonstrate the feasibility of performing a complex aortic valve repair for aortic valve endocarditis via an upper partial sternotomy.
May 25, 2017
This video shows the treatment of a 5-year-old patient with a rapidly enlarging aneurysm and left ventricular outflow tract to pulmonary artery shunt.
April 11, 2017
The authors present the case of a neonate who developed mitral valve infective endocarditis.
April 10, 2017
This video demonstrates a "hemi-commando" procedure in a 64-year-old female patient with aortic root abscess involving the intervalvular fibrosa.
September 27, 2016
The authors demonstrate how to perform mitroaortic replacement using the David Technique in a case of prosthethic endocarditis.
August 2, 2016
Data from two institutions were evaluated for the period 2002-2014 including 436 patients affected by endocarditis, of whom 18% were current intravenous drug users (IVDUs). IVDUs had a lower risk of operative mortality but had an increased rate of valve-related complications, mostly related to higher rates of reinfection.
June 6, 2016
This video demonstrates a tricuspid valve replacement with a mitral homograft in a child with endocarditis.